شرشور

Arabic

Etymology

From the root ش ر ش ر (š-r-š-r) meaning “to scatter”, “to spread”, “to cut into piece”, especially said of grass and wheat; so called for its habit of eating waste grain among chaff; compare English chaffinch.

Noun

شُرْشُور (šuršūr) m (plural شَرَاشِير (šarāšīr))

  1. Fringilla gen. et spp.

Declension

References

  • Nöldeke, Theodor (1904) Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, page 111
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), شرشور”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, ISBN 978-3-447-06584-9, page 645

Libyan Arabic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃarʃuːr/

Noun

شرشور (transliteration needed) m

  1. aggregate (the one mixed with concrete)
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