Meaning

7 senses
  1. The leader of an Arab village, family or small tribe.

    Scheich

    шейхšejx

    шейхšejx

    the leader of an Arab village or family

  2. An Islamic religious cleric; the master of a Sufi order.

    Scheich

    шейхšejx

  3. An official title for members of the royal family as well as some prominent families.

    Scheich

    шейхšejx

  4. (slang)An Arab, especially one dressed in traditional clothing.

  5. A member of one of the three hereditary, traditionally endogamous Yazidi castes, taking certain spiritual and leadership roles.

  6. An honorific for specialists in spirituality, for example in Sufism.

  7. (archaic, slang)A romantic lover.

    донжуа́нdonžuán

Examples

4 sentences
  1. Sami was cooling his heels in Sharm al-Sheikh.

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  2. Sami is Fadil's sheikh.

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  3. My grandfather is a Bedouin sheikh, chief of one of the most powerful tribes of the desert.

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  4. At the conclusion of the meeting, President Ilham Aliyev presented a keepsake to President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
leader of an Arab village, family or small tribe:
Русский
By meaning 2
leader of an Arab village, family or small tribe:
1920s: romantic lover:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
leader of an Arab village, family or small tribe:

Origin

From Arabic شَيْخ (šayḵ, “elder”). Sense 4 (“a romantic lover”) is from the 1921 film The

From Arabic شَيْخ (šayḵ, “elder”). Sense 4 (“a romantic lover”) is from the 1921 film The Sheik.

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Forms

plural: sheikhs

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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