شهر

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See also: شہر and سہر

Arabic

Etymology

From the root ش ه ر (š-h-r). The meaning “month” can be considered a semantic loan from Aramaic סהרא, but compare Old South Arabian 𐩦𐩠𐩧 (s²hr, beginning of the lunar month).

Pronunciation

  • Verb I: IPA(key): /ʃa.ha.ra/
  • Verb II: IPA(key): /ʃah.ha.ra/
  • Noun: IPA(key): /ʃahr/
  • Noun:
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Verb

شَهَرَ (šahara) I, non-past يَشْهَرُ‎ (yašharu)

  1. to spread, to make known, to divulge
  2. to make well-known, to make famous, to make notorious
  3. to proclaim, to announce
  4. to draw (a weapon), to unsheathe

Conjugation

Verb

شَهَّرَ (šahhara) II, non-past يُشَهِّرُ‎ (yušahhiru)

  1. to make well-known, to make famous, to make notorious
  2. to spread, to make known, to divulge
  3. to proclaim, to announce
  4. to defame, to slander, to revile, to pillory, to condemn, to denounce

Conjugation

Noun

شَهْر (šahrm (plural أَشْهُر (ʔašhur) or شُهُور (šuhūr))

  1. verbal noun of شَهَرَ (šahara) (form I)
  2. month (unit of time)
  3. new moon (beginning of the lunar month)
    شَهْر الْعَسَل (šahr al-ʕasal, honeymoon)

Declension

References

  • Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, pages 186–187
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “شهر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[1] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 680

Moroccan Arabic

Noun

شهر (šhar)

  1. month

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Persian شهر (šahr).

Noun

شهر (şehir)

  1. city
  2. town
  3. borough

Persian

Dari شهر
Iranian Persian
Tajik шаҳр

Etymology

From Middle Persian 𐭱𐭲𐭥𐭩 (šahr), from Proto-Iranian *xšaθram (likely through Avestan 𐬑𐬱𐬀𐬚𐬭𐬀 (xšaθra, kingdom), compare Old Persian 𐎧𐏁𐏂𐎶 (xšaça-)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kšatrám, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tek- (to attain).

Pronunciation

  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "IR" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ʃæhɾ/, [ʃæhɾ], [ʃæːhɾ]

Noun

شهر (šahr) (plural شهرها (šahr-hâ))

  1. (obsolete) land, country
  2. city, town

Related terms

Descendants

References