Word Origin Summary

پادشاه is attested in Ottoman Turkish. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. پادشاهFASborrowed from
2. ŠLYTAMiddle Persianinherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• padisah

  Hungarian · borrowed from

• padișah

  Romanian · borrowed from

• Πατισ̌άχις

  Cappadocian Greek · borrowed from

• padişah

  Turkish · inherited from

• pádišáh

  Czech · derived from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root