𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠

Middle Persian

Alternative forms

• šh (šah)

Etymology

From Old Persian 𐏋 (XŠ /⁠xšāyaθiya⁠/, “king”).

Logogram from Aramaic 𐡌𐡋𐡊𐡀 (malkā, “king”).

Noun

𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠 • (MLKA /šāh/)

1. king

Derived terms

• 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠𐭭 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠 (MLKAn MLKA /⁠šāhān šāh⁠/)
• šhdʾnk'

Descendants

• Persian: شاه (šâh), شه (šah)
  • → Arabic: شَاه (šāh)
    • → Basque: xake
    • → Czech: šach
    • → Galician: xaque
    • → Portuguese: xeque, xaque
    • → Slovak: šach
    • → Slovene: šah
    • → Spanish: jaque
    • → Vulgar Latin: *scaccus
      • Italian: scacco
      • Old French: eschec
        • French: échec
          • → Catalan: xec
        • → Middle Dutch: scaec
          • Dutch: schaak
          • → Danish: skak
        • → Middle English: chek, chekke
          • English: check, cheque (see there for further descendants)
        • → Middle English: ches, chees, chesse, echesse, esches (via the plural eschés)
          • English: chess
          • Scots: chess
      • → Middle High German: schāch
        • German: Schach
          • → Russian: шах (šax)
            • → Armenian: շախ (šax)
          • → Hungarian: sakk
          • → Luxembourgish: Schach
          • → Romanian: șah
          • → Swedish: schack
            • → Finnish: shakki, šakki
      • → Saterland Frisian: Schak, Schach
      • → Medieval Latin: scaccarium
        • Old French: eschekier, escheker, eschequier, eskekier
          • Middle French: eschiquier
            • French: échiquier
          • Norman: êchitchi
          • → Middle English: escheker, eschecour, eschekker, eschekkere, eschequeer, eschequer, eschequier, esscheker, cheker, checher, chekar, chekere, chekier, chekir, chekker, chekkere, chekkyr, chekyr, chequer, schequer
            • English: exchequer, Exchequer
            • English: checker, chequer (checkers, chequers)
  • → Azerbaijani: şah
  • → Bashkir: шаһ (şah)
  • → Belarusian: шах (šax)
  • → Bengali: শাহ (śah)
  • → Bulgarian: шах (šah)
  • → Catalan: xa
  • → Chinese: 沙阿 (shā'ā), 沙赫 (shāhè)
  • → Danish: shah
  • → Dutch: sjah
  • → English: shah
  • → Estonian: šahh
  • → Finnish: šakki, shakki, sakki
  • → French: schah, chah, shah
  • → Georgian: შაჰი (šahi)
  • → German: schah
  • → Hindustani:
    • Hindi: शाह (śāh)
    • Urdu: شاہ (śāh)
  • → Hungarian: sakk
  • → Irish: seá
  • → Italian: scià
  • → Japanese: シャー (shā)
  • → Kazakh: шаһ (şah)
  • → Khalaj: şâh
  • → Korean: 샤 (sya)
  • → Kumyk: шагь (şah)
  • → Kyrgyz: шах (şah)
  • → Latvian: šahs
  • → Lezgi: шагь (šah)
  • → Lithuanian: šachas
  • → Macedonian: шах (šah)
  • → Malay: syah
  • → Mongolian: шах (šax)
  • → Middle Armenian: շահ (šah)
    • Armenian: շահ (šah)
  • → Norwegian: sjah
  • → Old Norse: skák
    • Faroese: skák
    • Icelandic: skák
    • Norwegian Bokmål: sjakk
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: sjakk
  • → Odia: ଶାହା (śāhā), ସାହା (sāhā)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: شاه (şâh)
    • Turkish: şah
    • → Albanian: shah
    • → Hungarian: sah
    • → Romanian: șah
  • → Pashto: شاه (šāh)
  • → Polish: szach
  • → Portuguese: xá
  • → Punjabi:
    • Gurmukhi script: ਸ਼ਾਹ (śāh)
    • Shahmukhi script: شاہ (śāh)
  • → Romansch: schah
  • → Russian: шах (šax)
    • → Armenian: շախ (šax)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    • Cyrillic script: шах
    • Latin script: šah
  • → Spanish: sah
  • → Swedish: shah
  • → Sylheti: ꠡꠣ (śa)
  • → Tatar: шаһ (şah)
  • → Turkish: şah
  • → Turkmen: şah
  • → Ukrainian: шах (šax)
  • → Uyghur: شاھ (shah)
  • → Uzbek: shoh
  • → Vietnamese: sa
  • → Zazaki: şağ
• Tajik: шоҳ (šoh)

See also

• 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭲𐭠 (bāmbišn)