Shah vs Shaw - What's the difference?
shah | shaw |
A king of Persia or Iran.
A supreme ruler in some Middle Eastern or South Asian nations.
(label) A thicket; a small wood or grove.
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*:Thenne said sire kay I requyre you lete vs preue this aduenture / I shal not fayle you said sir Gaherys / and soo they rode that tyme tyl a lake / that was that tyme called the peryllous lake / And there they abode vnder the shawe of the wood
*1936 , (Alfred Edward Housman), More Poems , V, lines 1-2
(label) The leaves and tops of vegetables, especially potatoes and turnips.
*1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon, 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p.35:
*:Up here the hills were brave with the beauty and the heat of it, but the hayfield was still all a crackling dryness and in the potato park beyond the biggings the shaws drooped red and rusty already.
As nouns the difference between shah and shaw
is that shah is a king of Persia or Iran while shaw is a thicket; a small wood or grove.As proper nouns the difference between shah and shaw
is that shah is a common surname in India while Shaw is an English topographic surname for someone who lived by a small wood or copse.shah
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Alternative forms
* schahNoun
(en noun) (wikipedia shah)Usage notes
The wife of the last shah of Iran used the title shahbanu , which was translated as empress into English.Derived terms
* shahdom * shahmukhiEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Anagrams
* * English terms derived from Persian ----shaw
English
Alternative forms
* shaweNoun
(en noun)- The snows are fled away, leaves on the shaws , / And grasses in the mead renew their birth,