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# shah

«shah» in Mova's school dictionary: **The title of the king of Iran (Persia) in the past** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a shah, shahs; the Shah)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The title of the king of Iran (Persia) in the past. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shah/#m1)

2) A title used by some rulers in other lands such as Afghanistan and in old India. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shah/#m2)

3) (a name) Shah is also a common family name in South Asia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shah/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons the shah was the monarch of Persia (now Iran); the last shah left in the Iranian revolution and Iran became an Islamic republic. In stories set in the old East a shah is like a king or emperor. In chess, the word "check" and "checkmate" come from Persian "shah" and "shah mat" (the king is helpless).

### examples

- The Shah of Iran ruled from a palace in Tehran. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shah/#x1)
- The last shah left Iran during a revolution. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shah/#x2)
- In the old Persian story, the shah listened to a thousand tales. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shah/#x3)
- "Checkmate" comes from Persian words meaning "the shah is helpless". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shah/#x4)
- Our new classmate's surname is Shah. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shah/#x5)
- The shah wore a jewelled crown. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shah/#x6)

### note

Countable: a shah, shahs. Capital S as a title (the Shah). The queen or wife of a shah was called the shahbanu or empress. Do not confuse with "Shia" or "sharp"; as a surname it is a name, not a title.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «shah» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shah/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.