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The leader of an Arab village or family
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sheikh
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sheik \Sheik\, n. [Ar. sheikh, shaykh, a venerable old man, a chief, fr. sh[=a]kha to grow or be old.] The head of an Arab family, or of a clan or a tribe; also, the chief magistrate of an Arab village. The name is also applied to Mohammedan ecclesiastics ...
Wikipedia
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Sheikh (pronounced or ; , mostly pronounced , plural )—also transliterated Sheik , Shaik , Shayk , Shaykh , Shaikh , Cheikh , and Shekh — is an honorific title in the Arabic language . It commonly designates the ruler of a tribe , who inherited the title ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A sheikh was summoned and with his authority and before a vast concourse of onlookers the tomb was reopened. ▪ He was a religious sheikh and presided at the mosque the girl's father attended. ▪ It is a tradition in which each ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the leader of an Arab village or family [syn: sheik , tribal sheik , tribal sheikh , Arab chief ]
Usage examples of sheikh.
Winters went to Bourne Farley it was to confer with the sheikh about that stretch of Breedy property.
The Turks treat the Tanelkums with great consideration, and every year the Pasha of Mourzuk gives their Sheikh a fine burnouse and other presents.
The piece began with shots of the Masjid al-Salaam, the dingy Jersey City mosque where the Sheikh had held forth.
Whether Yousef was involved or not, the timing of the OKC bombing threatened to cause a mistrial in the case against his supporter in the Trade Center bombing, Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman.
After reviewing those episodes we will turn to the handling of the Moussaoui case and some late leads regarding Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
One of these women has been seen, and the Sheikh and the Shereef Kebir are trying to get her back.
Sheikh and the Tentless One, in that the latter was dumb, even as the Sheikh himself had been!
JTTF agents and detectives to contain the cell surrounding a blind old man: Egyptian cleric Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman.
Sheikh obtained three sanctioned visas from CIA agents posing as State Department officials at the U.
This second investigation, also ongoing during the fall of 1992, would have put agents within striking distance of other blind Sheikh cohorts who were engaged in paramilitary training sessions and gunrunning.
In effect, both the Sheikh and Ramzi Yousef were agents of the Saudi billionaire.
I, Hassan of Aleppo, am Sheikh of the Order to-day, and my sacred duty has brought me here.
They had mounted their horses before the great door of the bordj, said goodbye to the Sheikh of Arba, scattered some money among the ragged Arabs gathered to watch them go, and cast one last look behind them.
It held sway, at the outset, over both banks, from range to range, northward as far as Deyrut, where the true Bahr Yusuf leaves the Nile, and southward to the neighbourhood of Gebel Sheikh Haridi.
Some of it was in kind - pearls from a dealer in Bahrain, even a box full of Maria Theresa dollars and another full of silver, presumably gifts from the local sheikhs.