喜樂美語

One way to hold it: an old man whom a group listens to. Age and experience gathered in one person, so his word settles things. From there the word reaches out to a ruler of a state, to a teacher whose students come to him, and to a group people are born into.

可以想成這樣一個畫面：一位年長的男性，群體裡的人都聽他的。時間和經驗累積在他身上，所以他說的話能定下事情。這個畫面往外延伸，就分成幾個方向。往權力那邊走，變成部族的領袖、國家的統治者。往學問那邊走，變成教導別人的宗教長者。在亞茲迪社群裡，它還被用來指一個世襲的身分群體。

From the word’s history

Wiktionary records the word as coming from Arabic شَيْخ (šayḵ), "elder" — which sits directly under the picture of a man whose age and experience give his word weight.

Wiktionary 記錄這個字來自阿拉伯語 شَيْخ（šayḵ），原意是「長者」。這正好對上上面那個畫面：份量來自年紀和經驗，所以後來的幾個用法都圍著「群體裡說話算數的長者」打轉。

Wiktionary, "sheikh"

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sheikhs / shuyookh

意思相反

studentdisciple

原始詞典資料10 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Sheikhnoun

  • 1

    The title of a sheikh.

    • The Makaddam of Dhaboot, Sheikh Awadth, is a fine-looking old man, and seemed much gratified at the recognition by Government of his kindness to the sailors. Two of the headmen of Nishton, Sheikhs Muhammad and Moosa, who happened to be here, received their presents at the same time as Sheikh Awadth.

Sheikhname

  • 1

    A surname from Arabic

sheikhnoun/ʃeɪk/

  • 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

    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

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

  • 4

    archaicslangA 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

    slangAn Arab, especially one dressed in traditional clothing.

  • 6

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

  • 7

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

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。