Shereef

Word SHEREEF
Character 7
Hyphenation ‖Sher eef
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Shereef"

What do we mean by shereef?

A member of an Arab princely family descended from Muhammad through his son-in-law Ali and daughter Fatima, the "Grand Shereef" being the governor of Mecca.

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The word "shereef" in example sentences

The (_shereef_) Prince Muley Bryhim, son of the present Emperor ❋ Abd Salam Shabeeny (N/A)

Sandjak-shereef, [H] mounted an Arabian camel of surpassing swiftness, and accompanied, or perhaps preceded, the flight of his army. ❋ Various (N/A)

The Turkish army was almost annihilated: 25,000 men, with numerous begs and pashas, remained on the field of battle, or perished in the Dniester from the breaking of the bridge: all their cannon and standards became trophies to the victors: and the green banner of the serasker was sent to Rome by Sobieski, in the belief that it was the _Sandjak-shereef_, or sacred standard of the Prophet -- the oriflamme of the Ottoman empire. ❋ Various (N/A)

[Footnote 10: The _sheik akkabar_, or chief of the accumulated caravan, is generally a _shereef_ or prince.] ❋ Abd Salam Shabeeny (N/A)

The Emperor, on seeing that it was not a shereef (a prince) prostrated himself in fervent prayer for a considerable time. ❋ Abd Salam Shabeeny (N/A)

There would be no shereef of Fezzan, or bashaw of Tripoli, to take their share of the profits, in any shape, in exchange for the privilege of being suffered to pass ❋ Abd Salam Shabeeny (N/A)

From the shereef [218], the servant of God, who putteth his trust in ❋ Abd Salam Shabeeny (N/A)

The Arab suspected that he was (_shereef_) a prince, and therefore did not dare to kill him, but preferred a complaint to the Emperor. ❋ Abd Salam Shabeeny (N/A)

L.S. Ismael S.n of a shereef; God illumine and preserve him. ❋ Abd Salam Shabeeny (N/A)

I happened to be at Tangier when the (_shereef_) prince Muley Teib was collecting an army to join that of the emperor, which was on the banks of the river Morbeya, (see the map of West Barbary, p. 55,) in Shawiya. ❋ Abd Salam Shabeeny (N/A)

French, and two Morocco fezes, and the green turban of a shereef, and the white of an Ulema. ❋ Unknown (1906)

"Peace on this house and may God give you happy dreams!" he said, when the white-robed figure of the shereef confronted him in the moonlight. ❋ Edgar Wallace (1903)

"Oh, zee shereef!" shrugged the Mexican, with a characteristic gesture of his hands. ❋ Joseph Bushnell Ames (1903)

He went in person to greet the notorious shereef, and found him sitting before his tent, a squat and burly man, distinctly negroid of countenance, and black. ❋ Edgar Wallace (1903)

"Good evening -- have a drink," grunted the shereef in English. ❋ Edgar Wallace (1903)

They followed the course of the stream downward until it was clear to the shereef that they could not have gone in that direction. ❋ Edgar Wallace (1903)

Two days after the departure of Ali a shereef arrived with salt and some other articles from Walet, the capital of the kingdom of ❋ Unknown (1893)

On returning to the village, after an excursion to the river-side to inspect the fishery, an old Moorish shereef came to bestow his blessing upon me, and beg some paper to write saphies upon. ❋ Unknown (1893)

They however insisted that, like the Jews, I must conform so far as to repeat the Mohammedan prayers; and when I attempted to waive the subject by telling them that I could not speak Arabic, one of them, a shereef from Tuat, in the Great Desert, started up and swore by the ❋ Unknown (1893)

One of them, a _shereef_, from Suat, declared that if he refused to go to the mosque he would carry him there. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

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