sheikh : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: sheikh	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for sheikh
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sheikh n the leader of an Arab village or family [syn: sheik, tribal sheik, sheikh, tribal sheikh, Arab chief]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Sheik \[d8]Sheik\, n. [Ar. sheikh, shaykh, a venerable old man, a chief, fr. sh[be]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 of a high grade. [Written also {scheik}, {shaik}, {sheikh}.]