shah

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In the time of Nadir-shah, the Kurds gave, without the slightest hesitation, a pound of gold for a pound of silver or copper.

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  1. noun Used formerly as a title for the hereditary monarch of Iran.

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  • When the shah was toppled, anarchy did not ensue: Within weeks, a Shiite bureaucratic apparatus filled the void. —  The Corner
  • Iran's population, by contrast, has doubled to more than 70 million people since the shah was overthrown, a direct result of Ayatollah Khomeini's opposition to family planning. —  Energy Tribune
  • Although initially aligned with the Iranian clergy in the collective attempt to overthrow the shah, the PMOI soon broke with the Islamist clergy when the latter, under the leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in 1981 pushed for the establishment of an Islamic state, governed by sha'riah (Islamic law). —  Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy
  • Unlike the shah, Alfoneh stressed, the incumbent government has an instrument at its disposal -- the Revolutionary Guards -- that it has deployed to make sure that public dissatisfaction does not evolve into a protest movement. —  EurasiaNet
  • It was a different approach to shah: This has already been posted. —  NAACHGAANA
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  1. Persian shāh, king, from Old Persian khshāyathiya-.

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  1. Formerly schah, shaw; = French schah, a shah, = Arabic Turkish Hind, shāh, (Persian shāh, a king; cf. Sanskrit kshatra, dominion (see satrap). From the Persian shāh, king, are also ult. English check, chess, checker, exchequer, etc. Cf. also padishah, pasha, bashaw, etc.
 

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