shairi
Appearance
Swahili
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic شِعْر (šiʕr).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]shairi class V (plural mashairi class VI)
- poem (literary piece written in verse)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Baldi, Sergio (30 November 2020), Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa (Handbuch der Orientalistik; Erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten; 145), Leiden • Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 167 Nr. 1482
