شيخ

See also: شیخ‎ and سیخ‎

Arabic

From the root ش ي خ‎ (š-y-ḵ), related to the verb شَاخَ‎ (šāḵa, “to age, to grow old”).

IPA^(key): /ʃajx/
- (Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ʃeːx/
- (Hijazi) IPA^(key): /ʃeːx/, [ʃe̞ːx]

شَيْخ • (šayḵ) m (plural شُيُوخ‎ (šuyūḵ) or أَشْيَاخ‎ (ʔašyāḵ) or مَشْيَخَة‎ (mašyaḵa) or مَشَايِخ‎ (mašāyiḵ))

old man
elderly gentleman, elder
sheik, chief, chieftain, patriarch
senator
sheik; Dr.; professor (title of professors and spiritual leaders)
sir (respectful title of address)
master (someone outstanding or excellent)
‏شَيْخُ الشَّباب‎ ― šayḵu š-šabāb ― the greatest of all guys (literally, “the master of youths”)

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- → Catalan: xeic
- → Old Spanish: xeque
  - Spanish: jeque
    - → Tagalog: heke
Maltese: xiħ
→ Bengali: শেখ (śekh)
→ Chinese: 謝赫／谢赫 (xièhè)
→ Classical Syriac: ܫܝܟ‎ (šayḵ)
→ Czech: šejk
→ Dutch: sjeik
→ English: sheik, sheikh
→ Esperanto: ŝejĥo
→ French: cheikh
- → Hungarian: sejk
→ German: Scheich
→ Hausa: shaihī̀, shēhū̀
→ Faroese: sjeikur
→ Italian: sceicco
→ Northern Kurdish: şêx
→ Norwegian Bokmål: sjeik
→ Norwegian Nynorsk: sjeik
→ Ottoman Turkish: شیخ‎ (şeyh)
- Turkish: şeyh
- → Albanian: sheh
- → Romanian: șeic
→ Persian: شیخ‎ (šeyx)
- → Azerbaijani: şeyx
- → Kholosi: šēx
- → Urdu: شیخ‎ (śaix)
→ Polish: szejk
→ Portuguese: xeique, xeque
→ Russian: шейх (šejx)
→ Swahili: shehe, sheik
- → Chichewa: shéhe
→ Swedish: shejk
→ Yiddish: שייך‎ (sheykh)

Wehr, Hans (1979), “شيخ”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

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