sheikh

noun7

1. •
   The leader of an Arab village, family or small tribe.
2. •
   An official title for members of the royal family as well as some prominent families.
3. •
   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. — 2013
4. •
   An honorific for specialists in spirituality, for example in Sufism.
5. •
   (slang) An 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. •
   (slang, no longer used) A 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. — 1939

noun1

1. •
   The title of a sheikh.