sheikh

noun

1. 1

   The leader of an Arab village, family or small tribe.

   Tarzan, who, by this time, with the assistance of Abdul, had picked up quite a smattering of Arab, questioned one of the younger men who had accompanied the sheik while the latter paid his respects to Captain Gerard.

2. 2

   An Islamic religious cleric; the master of a Sufi order.

   He then studied under a variety of scholars (shuyook) and institutes around the world in his quest for authentic knowledge.

3. 3

   An official title for members of the royal family as well as some prominent families.

4. 4

   archaicA romantic lover.

   When your last natural tooth goes, the time when you can kid yourself that you're a Hollywood sheik, is definitely at an end.

5. 5

   slangAn Arab, especially one dressed in traditional clothing.

6. 6

   A member of one of the three hereditary, traditionally endogamous Yazidi castes, taking certain spiritual and leadership roles.

7. 7

   An honorific for specialists in spirituality, for example in Sufism.

Forms

plural

sheikhs