Noun:

అరబ్ కాస్ట్, షేక్,

sheikh's Usage Examples:

Other families who are nowadays addressed or known as "sheikhs" were not traditionally rulers of provinces, but instead they were high-ranking.

The party was created on 13 September 1990 in Sana"a, Yemen, by the tribal sheikh Abdullah Al Ahmar.

Al-Qa"im, was an Islamist former Iraqi officer and the son of an Iraqi tribal sheikh of the Al-Karabla clan of the Dulaim.

The sheikh lost control of the jinn, who took to demonic ways.

After signing the Anglo-Ottoman Convention of 1913, the United Kingdom planned to split Kuwait from the Ottoman territories into a separate sheikhdom, but this agreement was never ratified.

The new minister for Islamic affairs, Abdullatif al-Alsheikh, had previously been credited with reining in the power of the religious police.

Arabia was a military and political campaign in which the various tribes, sheikhdoms, city-states, emirates, and kingdoms of most of the Arabian Peninsula.

At the peak of his power in 1774, Zahir's autonomous sheikhdom extended from Beirut to Gaza and included the Jabal Amil and Jabal Ajlun regions.

Pasha Mohammad Ali later organized Fazogli into a number of sheikhdoms to govern its inhabitants.

had separate protectorate treaties with the British, and were free to disassociate from the policies of the Upper Yafa sheikh.

The khirqa initiates an aspirant into the silsilah, the chain or lineage of sheikhs.

To the mosque belong a shadirvan, a zawiya, a harem, an imaret, a mausoleum of Mevlevi Order sheikhs and two caravanserais.

The term is used by almost every male and female (sheikha) member of the royal houses of the UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, and Kuwait.

Synonyms:

Arab chief, swayer, tribal sheikh, sheik, ruler, tribal sheik,

Antonyms:

woman,