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語源

From Arabic شَيْخ (šayḵ, “elder”). Sense 4 (“a romantic lover”) is from the 1921 film The Sheik.

発音

• IPA: /ʃeɪk/, /ʃik/
• 韻: -eɪk
• 異形同音異義語: shake, chic (different pronunciations)

名詞

sheik (plural sheiks)

1. The leader of an Arab village, family or small tribe.
   • 1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Numa ‘El Adrea’”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, page 120:

     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.
   • 2013 August 1, Islamic Online University Insights‎, archived from the original on 25 October 2021, page 10:

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

3. (some Arab Gulf countries) An official title for members of the royal family as well as some prominent families.
4. (slang, archaic) A romantic lover. [1920s]
   • 1939, George Orwell, Coming Up for Air, part 1, chapter 1:

     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. (slang) An Arab, especially one dressed in traditional clothing.
6. An honorific for specialists in spirituality, for example in Sufism.

使用する際の注意点

The title is commonly used for religious leaders as an expression of respect, in which case it does not imply an official status.

派生語

関連する語

• sheikha

アナグラム

• shiek, hikes, Seikh