شاہ
Punjabi
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian شاه (šāh), from Middle Persian 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠 (šāh).
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian شاه (šāh), from Middle Persian 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠 (mlkʾ /šāh/) from Old Persian 𐏋 (XŠ /xšāyaθiya/, “king”). Compare Punjabi ਸ਼ਾਹ (śāh) / شاہ (śāh), Gujarati શાહ (śāh), Marathi शहा (śahā), Bengali শাহ (śah).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /ʃɑːɦ/
Noun
شاہ • (śāh) m (Hindi spelling शाह)
Declension
| Declension of شاہ | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| direct | شاہ (śāh) | شاہ (śāh) |
| oblique | شاہ (śāh) | شاہوں (śāhō̃) |
| vocative | شاہ (śāh) | شاہو (śāhō) |
Derived terms
Derived terms
- شاہی (śāhī, “royal, kingly; rule, reign”)
- شاہ آلُو (śāh ālū, “prune”)
- شاہ باز (śāh bāz, “royal falcon; hero”)
- شاہ باشی (śāh bāśī, “applause”)
- شاہ بالا (śāh bālā, “bestman”)
- شاہ بَلُوط (śāh balūt, “chestnut”)
- شاہ بانو (śāh bāno, “wife of a king”)
- شاہ تِیر (śāh tīr, “beam”)
- شاہ جَہان (śāh jahān, “king of the world”)
- شاہْراہ (śāhrāh, “highway”)
- شاہ رَگ (śāh rag, “jugular vein”)
- شاہ رُخ (śāh rux, “kingly face; king roc”)
- شاہ نامہ (“chronicle of kings; Shahnameh”)
- شاہ نَشِین (śāh naśīn, “balcony, gallery”)
References
- “شاہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “شاه”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- John Shakespear (1834) “شاه”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
- “شاہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “شاه”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
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