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You can make 13 words from shah according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of shah

shah hsah sahh ashh hash ahsh shha hsha shha hsha hhsa hhsa sahh ashh shah hsah ahsh hash hahs ahhs hhas hhas ahhs hahs

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word shah. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in shah.

Definitions and meaning of shah

shah

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɑː/
• Rhymes: -ɑː

Etymology 1

From Persian شاه (šâh), from Middle Persian 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠 (šāh), from Old Persian 𐏋 (XŠ /⁠xšāyaθiya⁠/). Doublet of check. More at chess.

Alternative forms

• schah (archaic)
• šâh, šāh, shāh, s̲h̲āh (all rare)

Noun

shah (plural shahs)

1. A king of Persia or Iran.
2. A supreme ruler in some West Asian, Central Asian 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. His sons used the title shahzada (shah's descendant), which was translated as prince into English.

Derived terms

• shahdom

Related terms

• shahanshah
• shahbanu
• shahi
• Shahmukhi
• shahzada

Translations

Etymology 2

From Ukrainian шаг (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 شاه (shâh), from Persian شاه (šâh).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʃah]

Noun

shah m (plural shahë, definite shahu, definite plural shahët)

1. (uncountable) chess
2. check (as it pertains to a game of chess)
3. (also in the plural) a ruler in some Eastern regions (Iran, etc.)

Adverb

shah

1. straight, bipedally, upright

   Synonyms: arithi, qirithi, shahthi

2. bewildered, taken aback

   Synonym: shtang

3. (figurative) alone, deserted

   Synonyms: vetëm, shkretë

Related terms

Further reading

• “shah”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[2] (in Albanian), 1980
• “shah”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “shah”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 467

French

Etymology

From Persian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃa/

Noun

shah m (plural shahs)

1. Alternative spelling of schah

Further reading

• “shah”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɑː/

Noun

shah m (definite singular shahen, indefinite plural shahar, definite plural shahane)

1. alternative spelling of sjah

References

• “shah”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016

South Slavey

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʃà(h)]
• Hyphenation: shah

Noun

shah (stem -zha-)

1. Fort Liard form of sah

Inflection

References

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

Swedish

Etymology

From Persian شاه (šâh), from Middle Persian 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠 (šāh), from Old Persian 𐏋 (xšāyaθiya). Doublet of schack (“chess; check”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɧɑː/

Noun

shah c

1. a shah; a king of Persia

Declension

Related terms

• schack