إشارة

See also: آساره and اشارہ

Arabic

Etymology

From the root ش و ر (š-w-r).

Pronunciation

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Noun

إِشَارَة • (ʔišāra) f (plural إِشَارَات (ʔišārāt))

1. verbal noun of أَشَارَ (ʔašāra) (form IV)
2. sign, signal
3. pointing to
4. allusion
5. Ellipsis of إِشَارَة مُرُور (ʾišārat murūr, “traffic signal, traffic light”).
6. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) advice
7. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) command

Declension

Declension of noun إِشَارَة (ʔišāra)

Singular	singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	إِشَارَة ʔišāra	الْإِشَارَة al-ʔišāra	إِشَارَة ʔišārat
Nominative	إِشَارَةٌ ʔišāratun	الْإِشَارَةُ al-ʔišāratu	إِشَارَةُ ʔišāratu
Accusative	إِشَارَةً ʔišāratan	الْإِشَارَةَ al-ʔišārata	إِشَارَةَ ʔišārata
Genitive	إِشَارَةٍ ʔišāratin	الْإِشَارَةِ al-ʔišārati	إِشَارَةِ ʔišārati
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	إِشَارَتَيْن ʔišāratayn	الْإِشَارَتَيْن al-ʔišāratayn	إِشَارَتَيْ ʔišāratay
Nominative	إِشَارَتَانِ ʔišāratāni	الْإِشَارَتَانِ al-ʔišāratāni	إِشَارَتَا ʔišāratā
Accusative	إِشَارَتَيْنِ ʔišāratayni	الْإِشَارَتَيْنِ al-ʔišāratayni	إِشَارَتَيْ ʔišāratay
Genitive	إِشَارَتَيْنِ ʔišāratayni	الْإِشَارَتَيْنِ al-ʔišāratayni	إِشَارَتَيْ ʔišāratay
Plural	sound feminine plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	إِشَارَات ʔišārāt	الْإِشَارَات al-ʔišārāt	إِشَارَات ʔišārāt
Nominative	إِشَارَاتٌ ʔišārātun	الْإِشَارَاتُ al-ʔišārātu	إِشَارَاتُ ʔišārātu
Accusative	إِشَارَاتٍ ʔišārātin	الْإِشَارَاتِ al-ʔišārāti	إِشَارَاتِ ʔišārāti
Genitive	إِشَارَاتٍ ʔišārātin	الْإِشَارَاتِ al-ʔišārāti	إِشَارَاتِ ʔišārāti

Derived terms

• لُغَة إِشَارَة (luḡat ʾišāra, “sign language”)
• إِشَارَة مُرُور (ʾišārat murūr, “traffic light”)

Descendants

• Gulf Arabic: اشارة (ʾišāra)
• South Levantine Arabic: إشارة (ʔišāre)
• → Armenian: իշարաթ (išaratʻ)
• → Hausa: ìshār̃ā̀
• → Malay: isarat
  • Indonesian: isyarat
• → Ottoman Turkish: اشارت (işaret)
  • Turkish: işaret
• → Persian: اشاره (ešâre)
  • → Bengali: ইশারা (iśara)
  • → Gujarati: ઇશારો (iśāro)
  • → Hindustani:

    Hindi: इशारा (iśārā)

    Urdu: اِشارَہ (iśāra)

  • → Marathi: इशारा (iśārā)
  • → Punjabi:

    Gurmukhi script: ਇਸ਼ਾਰਾ (iśārā)

    Shahmukhi script: اِشارَہ (īśārah)

• → Swahili: ishara
• → Tausug: isārat

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “إشارة”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[1], London: W.H. Allen
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “إشارة”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

South Levantine Arabic

Root
ش و ر
3 terms

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Arabic إِشَارَة (ʔišāra).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔi.ʃaː.re/, [ʔɪˈʃɑː.rˤɑ]
• IPA^(key): /ʔi.ʃaː.ra/, [ʔɪˈʃɑː.rˤɑ]

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Noun

إشارة • (ʔišāra) f (plural إشارات (ʔišārāt))

1. sign, signal
2. traffic light, stop light