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Definition of Tribal sheikh
1. Noun. The leader of an Arab village or family.
Generic synonyms: Ruler, Swayer
Derivative terms: Sheikdom
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tribal Sheikh
Literary usage of Tribal sheikh
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Nineteenth Century (1884)
"... Suakin, and to every leading tribal sheikh between the Nile and the sea.
After long years of waiting, the cotton and slave dealer, whom so many of his ..."
2. The Cave Dwellers of Southern Tunisia: Recollections of a Sojourn with the by Daniel Bruun (1898)
"He is born of the tribe of Uled Sliman, of which his son is a tribal sheikh.
The Khalifa is between sixty and seventy years of age, and has three wives, ..."
3. United Arab Emirates: A New Perspective by Ibrahim Abed, Peter Hellyer (2001)
"... been much enhanced by the importance which the 'High Government' placed on
a 'Trucial Ruler' to the exclusion of a tribal sheikh in the interior. ..."
4. A History of Civilization in Palestine by Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister (1921)
"... people went to the descendant of their ancient tribal sheikh, who led them
out to a regular pitched battle with the ..."
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