"shāh" meaning in All languages combined

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    {
      "form": "shāhs",
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        "plural"
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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1968, “Khurāsān and the Khwārazm-Shāhs”, in The Cambridge History of Iran, Cambridge University Press, published 2001, →ISBN, page 191:",
          "text": "Along the frontiers of Khwārazm and the lower Syr Darya, where Jand was held by the shāhs, there lived a number of Türkmen, and even though many of them were still pagan, the Khwārazm-Shāhs had to achieve some sort of modus vivendi with them.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, David Morgan, Medieval Persia, 1040–1797, Longman Group UK, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Abbās’s achievement made it possible for Ṣafawid rule to survive a succession of largely ineffective shāhs for a further century.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Clifford Edmund Bosworth, The New Islamic Dynasties: A Chronological and Genealogical Manual, published 2012, →ISBN:",
          "text": "From the early fourth/tenth century, the Shāhs had their capital in Yazidiyya, perhaps the earlier Shammakhi, but they were also often to intervene in, and at times control, Bāb al-Abwāb or Darband on the Caspian coast (see below, no. 68). Over the decades, the Shāhs had to fight off the Georgians to their west, and, in the fifth/eleventh century, incursions from northern Persia of the Turkmens. After the notable reign of Fariburz I b. Sallār, the chronology and nomenclature of the succeeding Shāhs become somewhat fragmentary and tentative, for the detailed source for the history of the earlier period, a local history of Sharwān and Bāb al-Abwāb preserved in a later Ottoman historian, comes to an end; for subsequent rulers, we depend largely on literary references from the lands outside Sharwān and the evidence from coins.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, “Solṭān Salim Comes to Iran”, in Barry Wood, editor, transl., The Adventures of Shāh Esmāʿil: A Seventeenth-Century Persian Popular Romance, Brill, →ISBN, page 393:",
          "text": "She was beating a fighting retreat when the Shāh caught up to her with sixty men. When she saw the Shāh, she said, “May I be a sacrifice to you! I heard that they had captured you and taken you to the Solṭān, so I came out to fight to the death.”",
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        }
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        "Rare spelling of shah."
      ],
      "id": "en-shāh-en-noun-rNQEnbvU",
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          "shah",
          "shah#English"
        ]
      ],
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        "rare"
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    }
  ],
  "word": "shāh"
}

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        "plural"
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    }
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        }
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        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
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        "English nouns",
        "English rare forms",
        "English terms spelled with Ā",
        "English terms spelled with ◌̄",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1968, “Khurāsān and the Khwārazm-Shāhs”, in The Cambridge History of Iran, Cambridge University Press, published 2001, →ISBN, page 191:",
          "text": "Along the frontiers of Khwārazm and the lower Syr Darya, where Jand was held by the shāhs, there lived a number of Türkmen, and even though many of them were still pagan, the Khwārazm-Shāhs had to achieve some sort of modus vivendi with them.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, David Morgan, Medieval Persia, 1040–1797, Longman Group UK, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Abbās’s achievement made it possible for Ṣafawid rule to survive a succession of largely ineffective shāhs for a further century.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Clifford Edmund Bosworth, The New Islamic Dynasties: A Chronological and Genealogical Manual, published 2012, →ISBN:",
          "text": "From the early fourth/tenth century, the Shāhs had their capital in Yazidiyya, perhaps the earlier Shammakhi, but they were also often to intervene in, and at times control, Bāb al-Abwāb or Darband on the Caspian coast (see below, no. 68). Over the decades, the Shāhs had to fight off the Georgians to their west, and, in the fifth/eleventh century, incursions from northern Persia of the Turkmens. After the notable reign of Fariburz I b. Sallār, the chronology and nomenclature of the succeeding Shāhs become somewhat fragmentary and tentative, for the detailed source for the history of the earlier period, a local history of Sharwān and Bāb al-Abwāb preserved in a later Ottoman historian, comes to an end; for subsequent rulers, we depend largely on literary references from the lands outside Sharwān and the evidence from coins.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, “Solṭān Salim Comes to Iran”, in Barry Wood, editor, transl., The Adventures of Shāh Esmāʿil: A Seventeenth-Century Persian Popular Romance, Brill, →ISBN, page 393:",
          "text": "She was beating a fighting retreat when the Shāh caught up to her with sixty men. When she saw the Shāh, she said, “May I be a sacrifice to you! I heard that they had captured you and taken you to the Solṭān, so I came out to fight to the death.”",
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        }
      ],
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        "Rare spelling of shah."
      ],
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        ]
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  "word": "shāh"
}