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sheik
[sheek, sheyk] 
–noun
| 1. | Also, shaikh, sheikh. (in Islamic countries) the patriarch of a tribe or family; chief: a term of polite address. |
| 2. | Slang. a man held to be masterful and irresistibly charming to women. |
Origin:
1570–80; < Ar shaykh old man
1570–80; < Ar shaykh old man
Related forms:
sheiklike, adjective
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| sheik also sheikh (shēk, shāk) n.
[Arabic šayḫ, old man, chief, from šāḫa, to grow old; see śyḫ in Semitic roots.] |
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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 of a high grade. [Written also scheik, shaik, sheikh.]
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Language Translation for : sheik
Spanish:
jeque,
German:
der Scheich,
Japanese:
首長
sheik
"head of an Arab family," also "head of a Muslim religious order," 1577, from Arabic shaykh "chief," lit. "old man," from base of shakha "to grow old." Popularized by "The Sheik," novel in Arabian setting by E.M. Hull (1919), and movie version "The Sheikh," 1921, starring Rudolph Valentino, which gave it a 1920s sense of "strong, romantic lover."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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