شعور

Arabic

Root
ش ع ر (š ʕ r)
20 terms

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃu.ʕuːr/

Noun

شُعُور • (šuʕūr) m

1. verbal noun of شَعَرَ (šaʕara) (form I)
2. feeling, sensation, emotion

   Synonym: إِحْسَاس (ʔiḥsās)

Declension

Declension of noun شُعُور (šuʕūr)

singular	basic singular triptote
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	شُعُور šuʕūr	الشُّعُور aš-šuʕūr	شُعُور šuʕūr
nominative	شُعُورٌ šuʕūrun	الشُّعُورُ aš-šuʕūru	شُعُورُ šuʕūru
accusative	شُعُورًا šuʕūran	الشُّعُورَ aš-šuʕūra	شُعُورَ šuʕūra
genitive	شُعُورٍ šuʕūrin	الشُّعُورِ aš-šuʕūri	شُعُورِ šuʕūri

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: şüur
• → Chagatai: شعور (šʿwr)
  • Uyghur: شۇئۇر (shu'ur)
  • Uzbek: shuur
• → Northern Kurdish: şuûr
• → Ottoman Turkish: شعور (şuûr)
  • Turkish: şuur
• → Classical Persian: شُعُور (šu'ūr)
  • Dari: شعور (šu'ūr, ša'ūr)
  • Iranian Persian: شعور (šo'ur)
  • Tajik: шуур (šuur)
  • → Hindustani:
    • Hindi: शऊर (śaūr)
    • Urdu: شُعُور (śu'ūr)
• → Talysh: şuur

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic شُعُور (šuʕūr).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ʃu.ˈʔuːr/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃo̞.ʔúːɾ], [ʃä.ʔúːɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃo̞.ʔúːɾ], [ʃä.ʔúːɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʃoːúːɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʃʊːúɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃo.ʔúːɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃu.ʔúɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	šu'ūr
Dari reading?	šo'ūr, ša'ūr
Iranian reading?	šo'ur
Tajik reading?	šu'ur

Noun

شعور • (šo'ur)

1. common sense, good sense, intelligence

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934), “شعور”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian شُعُور (šu'ūr), from Arabic شُعُور (šuʕūr). First attested in c. 1635 as Middle Hindi شعور (ś'vr).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ʃʊ.(ʔ)uːɾ/
• (Punjabic Urdu, Delhiite) IPA^(key): [ʃɐ̯uːɾ]
• Rhymes: -uːɾ
• Hyphenation: شُ‧عُور

Noun

شُعُور • (śu'ūr) m (Hindi spelling शऊर)

1. intellect, wisdom; good sense
2. (psychology) consciousness
3. puberty, maturity

Declension

Declension of شعور

	singular	plural
direct	شُعُور (śu'ūr)	شُعُور (śu'ūr)
oblique	شُعُور (śu'ūr)	شُعُوروں (śu'ūrõ)
vocative	شُعُور (śu'ūr)	شُعُورو (śu'ūro)

See also

Urdu terms derived from the Arabic root ش ع ر (0 c, 5 e)

Further reading

• “شعور”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “شعور”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884), “شعور”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• Fallon, S. W. (1879), “شعور”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• John Shakespear (1834), “شعور”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC