different between shah vs tsarina

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Persian ???? (šâh), from Middle Persian ????????????????? (š?h), from Old Persian ???? (XŠ /xš?ya?iya/). Doublet of check. More at chess.

Alternative forms

• schah (archaic)
• šâh, š?h, sh?h, s?h??h (all rare)

Noun

shah (plural shahs)

1. A king of Persia or Iran.
2. A supreme ruler in some Middle Eastern or South Asian nations.

Usage notes

The wife of the last shah of Iran used the title shahbanu, which was translated as empress into English.

Derived terms

• shahdom

Related terms

• shahanshah
• shahi
• Shahmukhi

Translations

Etymology 2

From Ukrainian ??? (šah).

Noun

shah (plural shahs or shahy or shahiv)

1. (historical) A Ukrainian monetary unit.

Translations

Anagrams

• Hash, ahhs, hahs, hash

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ???? (shâh), from Persian ???? (shâh).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?a]

Noun

shah m

1. chess

French

Etymology

From Persian

Noun

shah m (plural shahs)

1. Alternative spelling of schah

Further reading

• “shah” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

South Slavey

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ah/

Noun

shah

1. Fort Liard form of sah

References

• Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, ?ISBN, page 37

Swedish

Etymology

From Persian ???? (š?h), from Middle Persian ????????????????? (š?h), from Old Persian ???? (xš?ya?iya).

Noun

shah c

1. a shah; a king of Persia

Declension

Related terms

• schack

English

Alternative forms

• czarina
• tzarina

Etymology

Via Italian czarina or Spanish czarina, from German Czarin, Zarin, feminine form of Czar, Zar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tsa??i?n?/, /za??i?n?/

Noun

tsarina (plural tsarinas, masculine tsar)

1. An empress of several Eastern European countries, especially Russia, or the wife of a tsar.

Synonyms

• tsaritsa, czaritza

Related terms

• tsar
• tsarevna
• tsarevich

Translations

Further reading

• tsarina at OneLook Dictionary Search
• tsarina, tzarina, czarina, czaritza, czaritsa at Google Ngram Viewer

Anagrams

• Sartain, Sinatra, Taranis, Trainas, antiars, artisan, astrain, sartain, tasiRNA, tasirna, tsarian

Dutch

Etymology

Probably from Italian or Spanish, cf. the English etymology. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tsa??ri.na?/
• Hyphenation: tsa?ri?na
• Rhymes: -i.na?

Noun

tsarina f (plural tsarina's, masculine tsaar)

1. tsarina (female tsar/empress, wife of a tsar)

   Synonym: tsarin

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From German Zarin, a feminine form of Zar (“Tsar”).

Noun

tsarina m (definite singular tsarinaen, indefinite plural tsarinaer, definite plural tsarinaene)

1. tsarina

   Synonym: tsaritsa

References

• “tsarina” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From German Zarin, a feminine form of Zar (“Tsar”).

Noun

tsarina f (definite singular tsarinaa, indefinite plural tsarinaer, definite plural tsarinaene)

1. tsarina

   Synonym: tsaritsa

References

• “tsarina” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Noun

tsarina f (plural tsarinas)

1. Alternative form of czarina