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- noun Plural form of
shah .
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Examples
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My point is there are shahs and there are shahs, as a quick course in multi-dynastic ancient Persian history will reveal!
Charlotte Safavi: On the Shahs of Sunset Reality Show Charlotte Safavi 2012
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It occurs to me that the shahs I knew in Tehranangeles were UCLA professors with Ivy League pedigrees, or doctors, bankers and lawyers who wouldn't be caught dead with facial hair, or without neckties and dress socks unlike the men in the PR picture.
Charlotte Safavi: On the Shahs of Sunset Reality Show Charlotte Safavi 2012
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This is only natural, given that it was the West which impacted upon the Pahlavi shahs to relax hijab.
G. Roger Denson: Shirin Neshat: Artist of the Decade G. Roger Denson 2010
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This is only natural, given that it was the West which impacted upon the Pahlavi shahs to relax hijab.
G. Roger Denson: Shirin Neshat: Artist of the Decade G. Roger Denson 2010
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Both gumashtas and shahs could be found outside the network center. back
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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This is only natural, given that it was the West which impacted upon the Pahlavi shahs to relax hijab.
G. Roger Denson: Shirin Neshat: Artist of the Decade G. Roger Denson 2010
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The guest book was filled with shahs and presidents.
Regina Weinreich: Jazz Baroness on HBO/ Burn the Floor on Broadway 2009
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The kingdoms of Georgia, one may recall, were vassals of the shahs before they were taken by the tsars in the early 19th century.
The New Great Game 2008
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The Qajar shahs ruled uneasily for a century and a half.
The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008
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Though a great polyglot trading emporium between East and West, Baku was still very much a part of Asia with the minarets and the old mosque of the Persian shahs, and with its population of Tatars, Persians, and Armenians.
The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008
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