شيرة
العربية
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شيرة
- /ʃaj.ra/
Where it comes from
Surely a borrowing from Aramaic. The forms reflect the Aramaic emphatic state in different ways (compare شَيْرَة (šayra) and شَيْرَى (šayrā)), and شَيْرُون (šayrūn) adds the diminutive ending -ōn. The source is probably a specialized sense of שֵׁירָא / ܫܶܐܪܳܐ (šērā), which otherwise means “bracelet” (compare the doublet سِوَار (siwār)) and also a ring-shaped restraint fitted around an animal's head.
Compare also Jewish Babylonian Aramaic שׁוּגְרְיָא (šūgrəyā, “basket woven of palm-leaves for dates”), from Akkadian 𒋗𒍀 (šu-guru₅ /šugrû/, “basket; a processed form of dates”), from Sumerian 𒋗𒍀 (šu-guru₅). This word was also borrowed into Arabic as شَوْغَرَة (šawḡara, “pannier of dates”).
In al-Andalus and Morocco, شَجَر (šajar), also found with the foreign-style vocalizations شِجَر (šijar) and شِجَار (šijār), is used to mean “fig trees”. It may be a related borrowing, from Aramaic שִׁיגְרָא, שִׁגְרָא (šiḡrā, “dried or pressed dates”). Its meaning would then have widened from “figs” to “trees”, just as ثَمَر (ṯamar, “fruits”) stands beside تَمْر (tamr, “dates”).
noun شَيْرَة · šayra · شَيْرَات · الشَّيْرَة
- pannier or two-handed frail made from a threaded fillet of sparterie, used to transport and sell figs
In English
- syrup thick liquid that has a high sugar content
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