شاہ
Punjabi edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Classical Persian شاه (šāh), from Middle Persian 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠 (šāh).
Noun edit
Urdu edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /ʃɑːɦ/
Noun edit
شاہ • (śāh) m (Hindi spelling शाह)
Declension edit
| Declension of شاہ | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| direct | شاہ (śāh) | شاہ (śāh) |
| oblique | شاہ (śāh) | شاہوں (śāhō̃) |
| vocative | شاہ (śāh) | شاہو (śāhō) |
Derived terms edit
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 edit
- “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.