Entries on شيخ in 15 Arabic dictionaries by the authors Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes by Reinhart Dozy, Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane, Muḥammad al-Fattinī, Majmaʿ Biḥār al-Anwār fī Gharāʾib al-Tanzīl wa Laṭāʾif al-Akhbār, and 12 more