شيرة

• شَيْرَى‎ (šayrā), شَيْرُون‎ (šayrūn)

Surely an Aramaic borrowing, with varying reflex of the emphatic state and -ōn diminutive ending, probably a particular sense of שֵׁירָא‎ / ܫܶܐܪܳܐ‎ (šērā), otherwise known as “bracelet” like سِوَار‎ (siwār) and also a kind of ring-shaped restraint around the head of a beast.

There is also Jewish Babylonian Aramaic שׁוּגְרְיָא‎ (šūgrəyā, “basket woven of palm-leaves for dates”), derived from Akkadian 𒋗𒍀 (šu-guru₅ /šugrû/, “basket; a processed form of dates”) and that from Sumerian 𒋗𒍀 (šu-guru₅), passed also into Arabic as شَوْغَرَة‎ (šawḡara, “pannier of dates”).

شَجَر‎ (šajar), also vocalized in a foreign fashion شِجَر‎ (šijar) and شِجَار‎ (šijār), used in the meaning “fig trees” in al-Andalus and Morocco, may be a kindred borrowing, the etymon being attested as שִׁיגְרָא‎, שִׁגְרָא‎ (šiḡrā, “dried or pressed dates”). As in ثَمَر‎ (ṯamar, “fruits”) against تَمْر‎ (tamr, “dates”), the meaning has then generalized from “figs” to “trees”.

• IPA^(key): /ʃaj.ra/

شَيْرَة • (šayra) f (plural شَيْرَات‎ (šayrāt))

1. threaded fillet of sparterie for the transport as well as sale of figs, pannier, two-handed frail

• Corriente, Federico; Pereira, Christophe; Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017) Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, page 747
• Corriente, F. (1997) A Dictionary of Andalusi Arabic (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East; 29)‎, Leiden, New York, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 298a
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 78, where the Löw reference allegedly page 18 is Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen‎ (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 124 Nr. 78
• Ibn ʿAbdūn (a. 1135), “Un document sur la vie urbaine et les corps de métiers à Séville au début du XII^e siècle: Le traité d’Ibn ʿAbdūn publié avec une introduction et un glossaire”, in Évariste Lévi-Provençal, editor, Journal asiatique‎ (in French), issue 2, published 1934, page 277
• Sokoloff, Michael (2002), “שׁוּגְרְיָא”, in A Dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic of the Talmudic and Geonic periods, Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University, page 1115b
• “šwgry)”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• “šuguru”, in The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary, University of Pennsylvania, 2006

• Rhymes: -rə

From Arabic شَجَرَة‎ (šajara, “tree”).

شْيَرَة • (šyara) f (plural شِيَر‎ (šiyar))

1. tree

From Persian شیره‎ (šire).

شيرة • (šīra) f (plural شيرات‎ (šīrāt) or شير‎ (šiyar)) (usually uncountable)

1. syrup

From Persian شیره‎ (šire).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃiːra/

شيرة • (šīra) f (plural شيرات‎ (širāt))

1. syrup