شعر

• IPA^(key): /ʃa.ʕa.ra/

شَعَرَ • (šaʕara) I (non-past يَشْعُرُ (yašʕuru), verbal noun شُعُور (šuʕūr))

1. to know, to have knowledge, to be cognizant
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:11-12:

     وَإِذَا قِيلَ لَهُمْ لَا تُفْسِدُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ قَالُوا إِنَّمَا نَحْنُ مُصْلِحُونَ ۝ أَلَا إِنَّهُمْ هُمُ الْمُفْسِدُونَ وَلَٰكِنْ لَا يَشْعُرُونَ

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2. to realize, to notice, to come to know
3. to perceive, to feel, to sense
4. to be conscious, to be aware

شَعَرَ • (šaʕara) I (non-past يَشْعُرُ (yašʕuru), verbal noun شِعْر (šiʕr))

1. to make or compose poetry
2. to poetize, to versify

شَعُرَ • (šaʕura) I (non-past يَشْعُرُ (yašʕuru), verbal noun شِعْر (šiʕr))

1. to become a poet

   خَالَطَ الشُّعَرَاءَ فَشَعُرَ

   ḵālaṭa š-šuʕarāʔa fašaʕura

   He mingled with the poets and became a poet

2. to perceive, to feel, to sense [with بِ (bi) ‘something’]
3. to become aware [with بِ (bi) ‘of something’]

From Proto-Semitic *śaʕr- (“hair”).

Cognate with Hebrew שיער (se'ár).

• IPA^(key): /ʃa.ʕar/

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شَعْر or شَعَر • (šaʕr or šaʕar) m (plural أَشْعَار (ʔašʕār) or شُعُور (šuʕūr))

1. hair

   لَقَدْ كُنْتُ أَزْرَعُ شَعْرَ جَسْدِي مُنْذُ بُضِعِ سَنَوَاتٍ حَتَّى الْآنَ.

   laqad kuntu ʔazraʕu šaʕra jasdī munḏu buḍiʕi sanawātin ḥattā l-ʔāna.

   I've been growing my hair for a few years now.

2. bristles
3. fur, pelt
4. cracks, hairline cracks (in a vase)

• شَعْرَة (šaʕra)

• Gulf Arabic: شعر (šaʕar)
• Maltese: xagħar
• Moroccan Arabic: شعر (šʕar), شعرة (šaʕra)

شَعِرَ • (šaʕira) I (non-past يَشْعَرُ (yašʕaru), verbal noun شَعَر (šaʕar))

1. to have thick and long hair, to be hirsute

Compare Hebrew שיר (shir) and Hebrew שירה (shirá).

• IPA^(key): /ʃiʕr/

شِعْر • (šiʕr) m (plural أَشْعَار (ʔašʕār))

1. knowing, knowledge

   لَيْتَ شِعْرِي ― layta šiʕrī ― I wish I knew

2. noticing, perception, sensation
3. poetry, poem, verses

• → Azerbaijani: şeir
• → Bashkir: шиғыр (şiğır)
• → Chagatai: شعر
  • Uyghur: شېئىر (shë'ir)
  • Uzbek: sheʼr
• → Hindustani:
  • Hindi: शेर (śer)
  • Urdu: شعر
• → Ottoman Turkish: شعر (şi'r)
  • Turkish: şiir
• → Pashto: شعر
• → Persian: شعر (še'r)
• → Punjabi: شِعْر (śiʻr)
• → Sindhi: شعر
• → Swahili: shairi
• → Turkmen: şygyr

• IPA^(key): /ʃu.ʕur/

شُعُر • (šuʕur) m pl

1. plural of شِعَار (šiʕār)

• Freytag, Georg (1833) “شعر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 426–427
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “شعر”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎^[2] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 1236–1238
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “شعر”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[3], London: W.H. Allen, page 544
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “شعر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

From Arabic شَعْر (šaʕr).

• IPA^(key): /ʃa.ʕar/

شعر • (šaʕar) m (collective, singulative شَعْرة f (šaʕra), plural شُعور (šuʕūr))

1. hair
2. bristles
3. fur

• مُشْعر (mušʕir, “hairy”)

From Arabic شِعْر (šiʕr).

• IPA^(key): /ʃi.ʕir/, [ʃɪ.ʕɪr]

شعر • (šiʕir) m (plural أشعار (ʔašʕār))

1. poetry
2. poem

   Synonym: قَصِيدة (gaṣīda)

From Arabic شَعْر (šaʕr).

• IPA^(key): /ʃʕar/

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شعر • (šʕar) m (collective, singulative شعرة f (šaʕra), plural شعور (šʕūr) or شعورات (šʕūrāt))

1. hair
2. bristles
3. fur

• مشعر (mšaʕʕar, “hairy”)

From Arabic شِعْر (šiʕr).

• IPA^(key): /ʃiʕr/

شعر • (šiʕr) m (plural أشعار (ʔašʕār))

1. poetry

Borrowed from Arabic شِعْر (šiʕr)

شعر • (şi’r)

1. poetry, poem, verse

   Synonyms: منظومه (manzume), نظم (nazm)

• Turkish: şiir

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شعر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[4] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 727b
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شعر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1127a
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şiir”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4481b

Borrowed from Arabic شِعْر (šiʕr).

Readings
Classical reading?	ši'r
Dari reading?	še'r
Iranian reading?	še'r
Tajik reading?	še'

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شعر • (še'r) (plural شعرها (še'r-hâ), or اشعار (aš'âr))

1. poem
2. poetry

• چامه (čâme)
• سرواد (sarvâd)

• شاعر (šâ'er)

From Arabic شَعْر (šaʕr).

• IPA^(key): /ʃaʕr/, [ˈʃa.ʕ(ɪ)r]

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شعر • (šaʕr) m

1. hair

Borrowed from Arabic شِعْر (šiʕr).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ʃeːɾ/

شعر • (śer) m (formal plural اَشْعار (aś'ār), Hindi spelling शेर)

1. couplet (of Urdu poetry)

(Colloquial)

(Standard)