# شاعر
## Arabic
### Etymology 1.1

Derived from the active participle of شَعَرَ (šaʕara, “to know”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃaː.ʕir/

#### Noun

شَاعِر • (šāʕir) m (plural شُعَرَاء (šuʕarāʔ), feminine شَاعِرَة (šāʕira))
* poet
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 23:224:وَٱلشُّعَرَاءُ يَتَّبِعُهُمُ ٱلْغَاوُونَwaš-šuʕarāʔu yattabiʕuhumu l-ḡāwūna(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* bard

##### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: şair
* → Bashkir: шағир (şağir)
* → Chagatai: شاعر
** Uyghur: شائىر (sha'ir)
** Uzbek: shoir
* → Classical Persian: شاعر (šā'ir)
** → Gojri: شاعِر (śāir)
** → Gujarati: શાયર (śāyar)
** → Hindustani:
    Hindi: शायर (śāyar)
    Urdu: شَاعِر (śā'ir)
** → Marathi: शाहीर (śāhīr)
** → Marwari:
    Devanagari script: सायर (sāyar)
    Mahajani script: 𑅰𑅛𑅭 (sjr)
** → Nepali: सायर (sāyar)
** → Old Punjabi: ਸਾਇਰੁ (sāiru)
*** Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਸ਼ਾਇਰ (śāira)
    Shahmukhi script: شاعِر (śā‘ir)
** → Rohingya: cáaer
** → Sindhi:
    Arabic script: شاعِرُ
    Devanagari script: शाइरु
    Khudabadi script: 𑋜𑋠𑊲𑋙𑋣 (śāiru)
* → Malay: syair
** Indonesian: syair
** → English: syair
* → Ottoman Turkish: شاعر (şâir)
** Turkish: şair
** → Romanian: șair
* → Pashto: شاعر
* → Tatar: шагыйрь (şağıyr’)
* → Turkmen: şahyr

### Etymology 1.2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃaː.ʕa.ra/

#### Verb

شَاعَرَ • (šāʕara) III (non-past يُشَاعِرُ (yušāʕiru), verbal noun مُشَاعَرَة (mušāʕara))
* to vie as a poet with

##### Conjugation
#### Further reading

* Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “شاعر”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

## Azerbaijani
### Noun

شاعر
* Arabic spelling of şair

## Baluchi
### Alternative forms

* شاہر (šáhar, šáhir)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian شاعر (šā'ir).

### Noun

شاعر • (transliteration needed)
* poet

## Gojri
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian شاعر (šā'ir).

### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: شا‧عِر

### Noun

شاعِر (śā'ir) m
* poet, writer, versifier, lyricist

### Further reading

* Dr Rafique Anjum (2018) Concise Gojri-Kashmiri-English Dictionary, New Delhi: Adam Publishers & Distributors, →ISBN, page 295.
* Javaid Rahi (2015) “شاعِرْ”, in گوجری ڈکشنری [Gojri Dictionary] (in Gojri), page 633, column 1.

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic شَاعِر (šāʕir).

### Noun

شاعر • (şâir)
* poet

#### Related terms

* شاعره (şâire)
* شعر (şi'r)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: şair
* → Romanian: șair

## Pashto
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic شَاعِر (šāʕir).

### Noun

شاعر • (šā'ír) m
* poet

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic شاعِر (šāʕir).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ʃɑːʔ.ˈiɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʃɑːʔ.ˈɪɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʃɑːʔ.ˈɪɾ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [ʃɑː.ˈɪɾ]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [ʃɔː.ˈiɾ]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [ʃɒːʔ.ˈeɹ]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [ʃɔʔ.ˈiɾ]
* Audio (Iran):(file)

### Noun

شاعر • (šâ'er) (plural شاعران (šâ'erân) or شاعرها (šâ'er-hâ) or شعرا (šo'arâ))
* poet

#### Derived terms

* شاعرانه (šâ'erâne)
* شاعری (šâ'eri)

#### Related terms

* شاعره (šâ'ere)
* شعر (še'r)

#### Descendants

* → Gojri: شاعِر (śāir)
* → Gujarati: શાયર (śāyar)
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: शायर (śāyar)
    Urdu: شَاعِر (śā'ir)
* → Marathi: शाहीर (śāhīr)
* → Marwari:
    Devanagari script: सायर (sāyar)
    Mahajani script: 𑅰𑅛𑅭 (sjr)
* → Nepali: सायर (sāyar)
* → Old Punjabi: ਸਾਇਰੁ (sāiru)
** Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਸ਼ਾਇਰ (śāira)
    Shahmukhi script: شاعِر (śā‘ir)
* → Rohingya: cáaer
* → Sindhi:
    Arabic script: شاعِرُ
    Devanagari script: शाइरु
    Khudabadi script: 𑋜𑋠𑊲𑋙𑋣 (śāiru)

## Punjabi
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian شاعر (šā'ir), from Arabic شَاعِر (šāʕir).

### Noun

شاعِر • (śā‘ir) m
* poet

### Further reading

* Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “شاعِر”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

## Sindhi
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian شاعر (šā'ir), from Arabic شَاعِر (šāʕir).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ʂɑɪrʊ]

### Noun

شاعِرُ • (śā'iru) m
* poet

### Further reading

* Parmanand, Mewaram (1910) “شاعِرُ”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society
* “شاعر”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, University of Chicago: Center for Language Engineering, Pakistan, 1866–1938

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian شاعر (šā'ir), from Arabic شَاعِر (šāʕir).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /ʃɑː.jəɾ/
* Audio (Pakistan):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪɾ
* Hyphenation: شَا‧عِر

### Noun

شَاعِر • (śā'ir) m (formal plural شعرا, feminine شاعرہ, Hindi spelling शायर)
* poet
    Synonym: کَوی (kavi)
* (by extension) humorist

#### Declension

(colloquial)
(standard)

#### Related terms

* شاعری (śā'irī)
* شاعرہ (śā'irā)
* شعر (śer)

### References

* “شاعر”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.