EGAVE

sheikh

About 1.78 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The leader of an Arab village, family or small tribe.
  2. noun An Islamic religious cleric; the master of a Sufi order.
  3. noun An official title for members of the royal family as well as some prominent families.
  4. noun A romantic lover. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
  5. noun An Arab, especially one dressed in traditional clothing.
  6. noun A member of one of the three hereditary, traditionally endogamous Yazidi castes, taking certain spiritual and leadership roles.
  7. noun An honorific for specialists in spirituality, for example in Sufism.

Similar words

sheik arab chief shaykh shaikh sheikha cheikh sharm amir mullah mufti

Often followed by

abdullah of mujibur and mujib mohammed was muhammad mohammad

Word family

sheik sheikhs sheiks

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