sheikhn.

Brit.

/ʃeɪk/,

/ʃiːk/, U.S.

/ʃik/,

/ʃeɪk/

Forms: 1500s siech, 1600s sceich, shech, shich, sheicke, shiek, 1600s–1700s sheck, 1700s schec(h, shiech, shaik, sheek, 1600s–1800s sheich, scheik, sheick, 1800s schiek, shaikh, shaykh, sheykh, 1600s– sheik, 1700s– sheikh; 1600s cheq, cheke, 1700s check, cheik, chiek, 1700s–1800s chaik, 1800s cheick; 1600s–1700s xeque.

Etymology: Arabic shaikh properly ‘old man’, < shākha to grow or be old. Compare Old French esceque, seic, French cheik, scheik, Spanish jeque, Portuguese xeque.

a. The chief of an Arab family or tribe; the headman of an Arabian village; an Arab chief; †an Eastern governor, prince, king. Now also used among Arabs as a general title of respect.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > rule or government of family or tribe > head of family, tribe, or clan > [noun] > Arab

sheikh1577

society > society and the community > social class > nobility > title > title or form of address for persons of rank > [noun] > for foreign persons of rank

bashawa1535

altesse1559

monseigneur1561

sheikh1577

naik1588

bey1589

altezza1595

kamia1601

illustrissimo1623

donshipc1626

pasha1648

Rao1665

hospodar1684

beg1686

burra sahiba1827

inkosi1835

gospodar1847

Mgr1848

Rai Bahadur1871

Rai Sahib1905

1577 R. Willes & R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Hist. Trauayle W. & E. Indies 331 b The kyng of Persia is called Siech Ismael, whom the Italians call Gualizador, or Sophi.

1615 W. Bedwell tr. Mohammedis Imposturæ i. §3 The peace of God..be vpon thee my Sheich.

1671 tr. A. Charant Let. conc. Countrys King of Tafiletta 5 in tr. R. Fréjus Relation Voy. Mauritania The cheif of each Tribe, who take upon them the Title of Xeque, which is equivalent to Captain.

1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. 160 He sent thither an Arab Scheik with many Arabs.

1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies I. iv. 36 He has the Title of Xeriff given him, to distinguish his Eminency from other Sheeks.

1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. iii. 32 One of the Numidian petty Princes, called by Greek Authors Philarchs, and by the Arabs, &c. Sheikhs.

1755 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 507/1 Mutavali, the chiek or governor of Mesched.

1788 Tully's Narr. Resid. Tripoli (1817) 175 Shaik Alieff, an Arab chief.

1841 Kinnear Cairo, etc. 169 One of the Fellah sheichs.

1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity I. 457 Abraham..left his home in Ur of the Chaldees to wander as a nomad Sheikh.

1908 Mockler-Ferryman Golden Girdle iii I knew that the Jelas tribe still existed, and though Sheik Feyzul was dead, his son Faris reigned in his stead.

1908 Times 8 July 19/2 As regards the Shaykh's competency as an Arabic scholar, there can be but one opinion.

b. (Chiefly in spelling sheik.) A type of a strong, romantic lover; a lady-killer. [After The Sheik, a novel by E. M. Hull (1919), and its cinematic adaptation The Sheikh, 1921, starring Rudolph Valentino.]

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > love > a lover > [noun] > male lover

servantc1405

specialc1425

servitorc1450

love-lad1586

young man1589

inamorato1592

swainc1592

gentleman friend1667

enamorado1677

spark1707

beau?1720

Johnny1726

man friend1736

feller1842

novio1843

soupirant1849

fella1874

man1874

fellow1878

square-pusher1890

stud1895

papa1896

lover mana1905

boyfriend1906

daddy1912

lover-boy1925

sheikh1925

sweetback1929

sweet man1942

older man1951

boyf1990

1925 Literary Digest 14 Feb. 28/2 We hear almost nothing more of the matinée idol any more... The ‘sheik’ has taken his place.

1926 Westm. Gaz. 7 Aug. The ‘cave man’ cult..cannot be quite so unhealthy as we have considered it; and next year, perhaps, the British Association will have a good word to say for the Sheik of romance.

1927 Amer. Speech 2 202/2 The girl calls the young man..‘my sheik’.

1932 S. Gibbons Cold Comfort Farm xviii. 245 The mask smiled..from a great silver screen: ‘Seth Starkadder in “Small-Town Sheik”.’

1939 ‘G. Orwell’ Coming up for Air i. i. 10 When your last natural tooth goes, the time when you can kid yourself that you're a Hollywood sheik is definitely at an end.

1956 S. Longstreet Real Jazz xii. 95 John Held Jr. drew the jazz-flapper and her sheik best... The lad was apple-headed, his hair buttered tight down. He wore bell-bottomed trousers, a racoon coat, drove a Stutz Bearcat and played or danced to jazz a lot.

1980 ‘L. Egan’ Motive in Shadow v. 87 He's sure a handsome sheik, kid.

a. The head of a Muslim religious order or community; a great religious doctor or preacher; now esp. a saint having a local cultus.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > [noun]

bishopc893

prelate?c1225

prince of priests?c1225

high priestc1400

pontificala1450

emperor clerkc1475

gentleman untrial1486

dignitya1525

Aaron1565

hierarch1574

presul1577

monsignor1579

church governor1588

pontiff1589

archbishop1600

monseigneur1601

monsignor1611

sheikh1613

protomist1619

Mar1622

hyperochality1637

protarch1654

pontifex1655

prelatical1658

dignitary1672

hierophanta1676

Monsig.1698

ecclesiarch1781

arch-pontiff1790

Mgr1848

Msgr.1868

patriarch-

society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > saint > [noun] > non-Christian > Muslim

pir1623

weli1819

sheikh1908

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 276 A Nation..which he calleth Hhassissin, which..followed a peculiar Prophet... They called him Sheich [printed Hheich] al Hhassissin.

1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. J. Albert de Mandelslo 46 in Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors The Devotions.. done at the Sepulchre of Schich Sefi at Ardebit.

1682 G. Wheler Journey into Greece ii. 199 A Book..written by a Cheke, or Doctor of Grand Cairo.

1753 R. Clayton Jrnl. from Cairo to Sinai 13 As we were passing by a mosch, where a certain Shiech Saleh was buried,..several of our guides..went thither to receive a benediction.

c1850 Arabian Nights (Rtldg.) 674 A convent.., the scheik, or superior of which was a friend of the steward.

1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey I. 201 A sheikh's tomb with a tiled roof.

1908 S. A. Cook Relig. Anc. Palestine vi. 68 Saints and holy sheikhs of the modern shrines.

b. Sheikh-ul-Islam (properly Sheikhu 'l Islam): the supreme authority in matters relating to religion and sacred law; in Turkey, the mufti. Hence Sheikh-ul-Islamate.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > various non-Christian superiors > [noun] > Muslim

mufti1586

Mahdi1625

Sheikh-ul-Islam (properly Sheikhu 'l Islam)1686

Khilafat1921

ayatollah1950

1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 261 The Sheikelislam, who is the chief Civil Judge.

1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea I. li. 335 The Kaziæskar is judge of the army, and the Scheichulislam is reputed of equal rank with him.

1902 Daily Chron. 26 Apr. 5/4 She went to the Sheikh-ul-Islamate.

1906 Westm. Gaz. 3 Sept. 3/2 No political act of the Sultan has any validity without the fetwa of the Sheikh-ul-Islam.

3. In India, one of a dissenting sect of Muslims; a general term for Hindu converts to Islam. (Usually shekh, shaikh.)

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > sect > non-Christian religions > Islam > [noun] > person > converted from Hinduism

Khoja1882

sheikh1883

1697 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia iii. i. 93 All Musselmen..are distinguished, some according to the Consanguinity they claim with Mahomet... A Shiek is a Cousin..at a distance, into which Relation they admit all new Proselytes.]

1883 Encycl. Brit. XV. 185/2 [article Madras] The Shaikhs number 511,112 the Sayyids 89,219, the Pathans 70,943 [etc.].1903 India Census, 1901 I. i. 451 The converts who call themselves Shekh.1905 J. M. Macphail Kenneth S. Macdonald xvi. 243 A Bengali Shekh may be almost anything.

Derivatives

ˈsheikhdom n.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > jurisdiction or territory of specific rulers or nobles > [noun] > of others

thanage14..

thanedomc1425

satrapy1569

chiefery1587

caliphate1614

sultany1639

sagamoreship1670

rajaship1698

ladyship1709

satrapate1717

march1726

sachemdom1764

Nizamat1765

khanate1799

jarldom1820

sultanate1822

knightship1845

sheikhdom1845

sachemship1876

sheikh-ship1878

shahdom1884

chiefship1894

thakurate1901

society > authority > rule or government > rule or government of family or tribe > head of family, tribe, or clan > [noun] > Arab > position of

sheikhdom1845

sheikh-ship1878

1845 ‘E. Warburton’ Crescent & Cross II. 254 The Sheikdom is..hereditary in most cases.

1860 H. B. Tristram Great Sahara xiv. 237 The Touareg do not appear to have any subdivided sheikdoms like the Arabs.

ˈsheikhling n. a petty sheikh.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > rule or government of family or tribe > head of family, tribe, or clan > [noun] > Arab > petty sheikh

sheikhling1914

1914 G. Bell Let. 19 Jan. (1927) I. xiii. 326 A young sheikhling of the Sikhur joined us..and spent the night with us as guests.

1974 W. Garner Big enough Wreath iv. 40 Mini-presidents and rich sheiklings seeking advice.

ˈsheikhly adj. pertaining to or characteristic of a sheikh.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > rule or government of family or tribe > head of family, tribe, or clan > [adjective] > of or relating to sheikh

sheikhly1888

1888 C. M. Doughty Trav. Arabia Deserta I. 98 Of sheykhly blood and noble easy countenance.

1907 W. Ewing Arab & Druze iii. 36 He proved to be the son of the sheikhly ruler of Dama.

sheikh-ship n. the status or office of a sheikh; the territory ruled by a sheikh.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > jurisdiction or territory of specific rulers or nobles > [noun] > of others

thanage14..

thanedomc1425

satrapy1569

chiefery1587

caliphate1614

sultany1639

sagamoreship1670

rajaship1698

ladyship1709

satrapate1717

march1726

sachemdom1764

Nizamat1765

khanate1799

jarldom1820

sultanate1822

knightship1845

sheikhdom1845

sachemship1876

sheikh-ship1878

shahdom1884

chiefship1894

thakurate1901

society > authority > rule or government > rule or government of family or tribe > head of family, tribe, or clan > [noun] > Arab > position of

sheikhdom1845

sheikh-ship1878

1878 Fraser's Mag. 18 144 The chief sheikhship is hereditary.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	sheikh
释义	sheikhn. Brit. /ʃeɪk/, /ʃiːk/, U.S. /ʃik/, /ʃeɪk/ Forms: 1500s siech, 1600s sceich, shech, shich, sheicke, shiek, 1600s–1700s sheck, 1700s schec(h, shiech, shaik, sheek, 1600s–1800s sheich, scheik, sheick, 1800s schiek, shaikh, shaykh, sheykh, 1600s– sheik, 1700s– sheikh; 1600s cheq, cheke, 1700s check, cheik, chiek, 1700s–1800s chaik, 1800s cheick; 1600s–1700s xeque. Etymology: Arabic shaikh properly ‘old man’, < shākha to grow or be old. Compare Old French esceque, seic, French cheik, scheik, Spanish jeque, Portuguese xeque. 1. a. The chief of an Arab family or tribe; the headman of an Arabian village; an Arab chief; †an Eastern governor, prince, king. Now also used among Arabs as a general title of respect. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > rule or government of family or tribe > head of family, tribe, or clan > [noun] > Arab sheikh1577 society > society and the community > social class > nobility > title > title or form of address for persons of rank > [noun] > for foreign persons of rank bashawa1535 altesse1559 monseigneur1561 sheikh1577 naik1588 bey1589 altezza1595 kamia1601 illustrissimo1623 donshipc1626 pasha1648 Rao1665 hospodar1684 beg1686 burra sahiba1827 inkosi1835 gospodar1847 Mgr1848 Rai Bahadur1871 Rai Sahib1905 1577 R. Willes & R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Hist. Trauayle W. & E. Indies 331 b The kyng of Persia is called Siech Ismael, whom the Italians call Gualizador, or Sophi. 1615 W. Bedwell tr. Mohammedis Imposturæ i. §3 The peace of God..be vpon thee my Sheich. 1671 tr. A. Charant Let. conc. Countrys King of Tafiletta 5 in tr. R. Fréjus Relation Voy. Mauritania The cheif of each Tribe, who take upon them the Title of Xeque, which is equivalent to Captain. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. 160 He sent thither an Arab Scheik with many Arabs. 1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies I. iv. 36 He has the Title of Xeriff given him, to distinguish his Eminency from other Sheeks. 1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. iii. 32 One of the Numidian petty Princes, called by Greek Authors Philarchs, and by the Arabs, &c. Sheikhs. 1755 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 507/1 Mutavali, the chiek or governor of Mesched. 1788 Tully's Narr. Resid. Tripoli (1817) 175 Shaik Alieff, an Arab chief. 1841 Kinnear Cairo, etc. 169 One of the Fellah sheichs. 1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity I. 457 Abraham..left his home in Ur of the Chaldees to wander as a nomad Sheikh. 1908 Mockler-Ferryman Golden Girdle iii I knew that the Jelas tribe still existed, and though Sheik Feyzul was dead, his son Faris reigned in his stead. 1908 Times 8 July 19/2 As regards the Shaykh's competency as an Arabic scholar, there can be but one opinion. b. (Chiefly in spelling sheik.) A type of a strong, romantic lover; a lady-killer. [After The Sheik, a novel by E. M. Hull (1919), and its cinematic adaptation The Sheikh, 1921, starring Rudolph Valentino.] ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > a lover > [noun] > male lover servantc1405 specialc1425 servitorc1450 love-lad1586 young man1589 inamorato1592 swainc1592 gentleman friend1667 enamorado1677 spark1707 beau?1720 Johnny1726 man friend1736 feller1842 novio1843 soupirant1849 fella1874 man1874 fellow1878 square-pusher1890 stud1895 papa1896 lover mana1905 boyfriend1906 daddy1912 lover-boy1925 sheikh1925 sweetback1929 sweet man1942 older man1951 boyf1990 1925 Literary Digest 14 Feb. 28/2 We hear almost nothing more of the matinée idol any more... The ‘sheik’ has taken his place. 1926 Westm. Gaz. 7 Aug. The ‘cave man’ cult..cannot be quite so unhealthy as we have considered it; and next year, perhaps, the British Association will have a good word to say for the Sheik of romance. 1927 Amer. Speech 2 202/2 The girl calls the young man..‘my sheik’. 1932 S. Gibbons Cold Comfort Farm xviii. 245 The mask smiled..from a great silver screen: ‘Seth Starkadder in “Small-Town Sheik”.’ 1939 ‘G. Orwell’ Coming up for Air i. i. 10 When your last natural tooth goes, the time when you can kid yourself that you're a Hollywood sheik is definitely at an end. 1956 S. Longstreet Real Jazz xii. 95 John Held Jr. drew the jazz-flapper and her sheik best... The lad was apple-headed, his hair buttered tight down. He wore bell-bottomed trousers, a racoon coat, drove a Stutz Bearcat and played or danced to jazz a lot. 1980 ‘L. Egan’ Motive in Shadow v. 87 He's sure a handsome sheik, kid. 2. a. The head of a Muslim religious order or community; a great religious doctor or preacher; now esp. a saint having a local cultus. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > [noun] bishopc893 prelate?c1225 prince of priests?c1225 high priestc1400 pontificala1450 emperor clerkc1475 gentleman untrial1486 dignitya1525 Aaron1565 hierarch1574 presul1577 monsignor1579 church governor1588 pontiff1589 archbishop1600 monseigneur1601 monsignor1611 sheikh1613 protomist1619 Mar1622 hyperochality1637 protarch1654 pontifex1655 prelatical1658 dignitary1672 hierophanta1676 Monsig.1698 ecclesiarch1781 arch-pontiff1790 Mgr1848 Msgr.1868 patriarch- society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > saint > [noun] > non-Christian > Muslim pir1623 weli1819 sheikh1908 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 276 A Nation..which he calleth Hhassissin, which..followed a peculiar Prophet... They called him Sheich [printed Hheich] al Hhassissin. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. J. Albert de Mandelslo 46 in Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors The Devotions.. done at the Sepulchre of Schich Sefi at Ardebit. 1682 G. Wheler Journey into Greece ii. 199 A Book..written by a Cheke, or Doctor of Grand Cairo. 1753 R. Clayton Jrnl. from Cairo to Sinai 13 As we were passing by a mosch, where a certain Shiech Saleh was buried,..several of our guides..went thither to receive a benediction. c1850 Arabian Nights (Rtldg.) 674 A convent.., the scheik, or superior of which was a friend of the steward. 1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey I. 201 A sheikh's tomb with a tiled roof. 1908 S. A. Cook Relig. Anc. Palestine vi. 68 Saints and holy sheikhs of the modern shrines. b. Sheikh-ul-Islam (properly Sheikhu 'l Islam): the supreme authority in matters relating to religion and sacred law; in Turkey, the mufti. Hence Sheikh-ul-Islamate. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > various non-Christian superiors > [noun] > Muslim mufti1586 Mahdi1625 Sheikh-ul-Islam (properly Sheikhu 'l Islam)1686 Khilafat1921 ayatollah1950 1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 261 The Sheikelislam, who is the chief Civil Judge. 1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea I. li. 335 The Kaziæskar is judge of the army, and the Scheichulislam is reputed of equal rank with him. 1902 Daily Chron. 26 Apr. 5/4 She went to the Sheikh-ul-Islamate. 1906 Westm. Gaz. 3 Sept. 3/2 No political act of the Sultan has any validity without the fetwa of the Sheikh-ul-Islam. 3. In India, one of a dissenting sect of Muslims; a general term for Hindu converts to Islam. (Usually shekh, shaikh.) ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > non-Christian religions > Islam > [noun] > person > converted from Hinduism Khoja1882 sheikh1883 1697 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia iii. i. 93 All Musselmen..are distinguished, some according to the Consanguinity they claim with Mahomet... A Shiek is a Cousin..at a distance, into which Relation they admit all new Proselytes.] 1883 Encycl. Brit. XV. 185/2 [article Madras] The Shaikhs number 511,112 the Sayyids 89,219, the Pathans 70,943 [etc.].1903 India Census, 1901 I. i. 451 The converts who call themselves Shekh.1905 J. M. Macphail Kenneth S. Macdonald xvi. 243 A Bengali Shekh may be almost anything. Derivatives ˈsheikhdom n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > jurisdiction or territory of specific rulers or nobles > [noun] > of others thanage14.. thanedomc1425 satrapy1569 chiefery1587 caliphate1614 sultany1639 sagamoreship1670 rajaship1698 ladyship1709 satrapate1717 march1726 sachemdom1764 Nizamat1765 khanate1799 jarldom1820 sultanate1822 knightship1845 sheikhdom1845 sachemship1876 sheikh-ship1878 shahdom1884 chiefship1894 thakurate1901 society > authority > rule or government > rule or government of family or tribe > head of family, tribe, or clan > [noun] > Arab > position of sheikhdom1845 sheikh-ship1878 1845 ‘E. Warburton’ Crescent & Cross II. 254 The Sheikdom is..hereditary in most cases. 1860 H. B. Tristram Great Sahara xiv. 237 The Touareg do not appear to have any subdivided sheikdoms like the Arabs. ˈsheikhling n. a petty sheikh. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > rule or government of family or tribe > head of family, tribe, or clan > [noun] > Arab > petty sheikh sheikhling1914 1914 G. Bell Let. 19 Jan. (1927) I. xiii. 326 A young sheikhling of the Sikhur joined us..and spent the night with us as guests. 1974 W. Garner Big enough Wreath iv. 40 Mini-presidents and rich sheiklings seeking advice. ˈsheikhly adj. pertaining to or characteristic of a sheikh. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > rule or government of family or tribe > head of family, tribe, or clan > [adjective] > of or relating to sheikh sheikhly1888 1888 C. M. Doughty Trav. Arabia Deserta I. 98 Of sheykhly blood and noble easy countenance. 1907 W. Ewing Arab & Druze iii. 36 He proved to be the son of the sheikhly ruler of Dama. sheikh-ship n. the status or office of a sheikh; the territory ruled by a sheikh. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > jurisdiction or territory of specific rulers or nobles > [noun] > of others thanage14.. thanedomc1425 satrapy1569 chiefery1587 caliphate1614 sultany1639 sagamoreship1670 rajaship1698 ladyship1709 satrapate1717 march1726 sachemdom1764 Nizamat1765 khanate1799 jarldom1820 sultanate1822 knightship1845 sheikhdom1845 sachemship1876 sheikh-ship1878 shahdom1884 chiefship1894 thakurate1901 society > authority > rule or government > rule or government of family or tribe > head of family, tribe, or clan > [noun] > Arab > position of sheikhdom1845 sheikh-ship1878 1878 Fraser's Mag. 18 144 The chief sheikhship is hereditary. 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