s. m, ch merchant, one who lends money on interest; a banker, a shop-keeper, a trader; a king; a title assumed by faqírs; the principal in relation with an agent, Sháh, gumáshtá; an affix to the names of Sayyads:—sháh- dará, s. m. The name of a village on the bank of the Ravi near Lahore containing the magnificent mausoleum of the Emperor Jahangir:—sháhráh, s. m A principal street, a public road:—sháh maksadí, s. m. A kind of marble from Yusufzai:—sháh nashíṉ, s. m. A projecting platform erected on the roof of a house to sit on:—sháhpasaṇd, s. m. A variety of a mango in Multan, with a thin skin and smooth velvety flat stone, the fruit of which in former times was kept for the reigning sovereigns:—sháh pasaṇd, s. m. Centaurea moscha, Nat. Ord. Compo sitæ, a bitter tonic and purgative also deemed aromatic and aphrodisiac:—sháhtush, s. m. See Tush:—sháh biṉ pat nahíṇ, gurú biṉ gat nahíṇ. No honour (credit) without banker, no salvation without a Guru.—Prov:—sháhtút s. m. See Shatút:—sháhtará, s. m. A bitter plant (Fumaria officinalis, F. parviflora, Nat. Ord. Fumariaceæ) abundant in fields in the Panjab plains in early spring, it also occurs Trans-Indus. The seeds and leaves are considered cooling, diaphoretic, diuretic, and laxative.