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Look up Sham or sham in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
|Look up Sham or sham in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.|
Sham may refer to:
Arabic use[edit]
- Al-Sham, endonym of the region bordering the eastern Mediterranean Sea, usually known as the Levant or the region of Syria: Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Cyprus and the Turkish Hatay ProvinceBilad al-Sham, the Caliphate province of the same regionash-Shām, or Sham (الشام), another name for Damascus, one of the largest cities in the regionJund al-Sham, militant group based in Afghanistan, meaning "Army of Syria"
- Sham el-Nessim, Egyptian holiday marking the beginning of spring
- Sham, or Alsahm, the Arabic name for the star Alpha Sagittae
English use[edit]
- FraudSham drug as a quack remedySham election, another name for a show electionSham marriage, a marriage entered into with intent to deceiveSham peer review, a fraudulent or malicious form of peer review
- Hoax
- Placebo, any drug, surgery, or other treatment with intentional (and usually blinded) lack of efficacySham drug as a placebo used in a single- or double-blinded control group of experiments (see treatment and control groups)Sham surgery, surgery omitting the therapeutic component, performed in the single-blinded control group of experiments
- Name of a person or group of people ex: Noah WestSam the Sham (born 1937), stage name of U.S. rock singer Domingo “Sam” SamudioSham, nickname of Art Shamsky (born 1941), American Major League Baseball outfielder and Israel Baseball League managerSham 69, English punk band
- Title of a work of artSham (film), a lost 1921 silent film based on a Broadway play starring Ethel ClaytonSham (play), a 1920 one-act stage play by Frank G. Tompkins
- Other usesSham, a name for the cover of a pillowSHAM, salicylhydroxamic acid, a drug that works against urinary tract infections
Chinese use[edit]
- Kohn–Sham equations, named after Walter Kohn and Lu Jeu Sham
- Sham Chun River, on the border of Hong Kong and mainland China
- Sham Shui Po District, a district of Hong Kong
- Sham Kwok Fai (born 1984), association football player from Hong Kong
Other uses[edit]
- Sham (horse), American Thoroughbred horse born in 1970 who won multiple graded stakes racesSham Stakes, a race named for the horse
- Sham, Iran
- Sham, a character in the X-Men 2099 comic book series
- Sham Pain, a single by American heavy metal band Five Finger Death Punch from And Justice For None
- Southern Hemisphere Annular Mode (SHAM), a climate pattern
See also[edit]
- Shaam (actor) (born 1978), actor and model from India
- Shams (disambiguation)
- Syria (disambiguation)