شتا

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Arabic

Verb

شَتَا (šatā) I (non-past يَشْتُو (yaštū), verbal noun شَتْو (šatw))

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    • a. 965, Al-Mutanabbi, chapter 284, in ʔAbū al-Baqāʔ al-ʕUkbariyy, edited by Mustafa As-Saqqā, Ibrāhīm Al-Abyari, and Abd Al-Hafīdh Shalbi, دِيوَانُ أَبِي الطَّيِّبِ الْمُتَنَبِّي بِشَرْحِ أَبِي الْبَقَاءِ الْعُكْبَرِيِّ الْمُسَمَّى بِالتِّبْيَانِ فِي شَرْحِ الدِّيوَانِ (dīwānu ʔabī ṭ-ṭayyibi l-mutanabbī bišarḥi ʔabī l-baqāʔi l-ʕukbariyyi l-musammā bi-t-tibyāni fī šarḥi d-dīwāni), volume 4, Beirut, Lebanon: Dar Al-Ma'rifah, published 1978, →OCLC, page 273:
      وَصِفْتُ فِيهَا مَصِيفَ بَادِيَةٍ / شَتَوْتُ بِالصَّحْصَحَانِ مَشْتَاهَا
      waṣiftu fīhā maṣīfa bādiyatin / šatawtu bi-ṣ-ṣaḥṣaḥāni maštāhā
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation

Hijazi Arabic

Root
ش ت و
1 term

Etymology

From Arabic شِتَاءْ (šitāʔ).

Pronunciation

Noun

شتا (šitam (plural أشتية (ʔaštiya))

  1. winter

See also

  • شَتّى (šatta, to winter, to wear winter clothes)
Seasons in Hijazi Arabic · فصول السنة (fuṣūl as-sana) (layout · text) · category
ربيع (rabīʕ, spring) صيف (ṣēf, summer) خريف (ḵarīf, autumn) شتا (šita, winter)

Moroccan Arabic

Root
ش ت و
1 term

Etymology

From Arabic شِتَاء (šitāʔ).

Pronunciation

Noun

شتا (štāf (plural شتاوي (štāwi) or مشاتي (mšāti))

  1. rain
  2. winter
    Synonym: شتوة (šatwa)

See also

Seasons in Moroccan Arabic · فصول (fṣūl or fuṣūl) (layout · text) · category
ربيع (rbīʕ, spring) صيف (ṣayf or ṣīf, summer) خريف (ḵrīf, autumn) شتا (štā, winter), شتوة (šatwa, winter)

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic شِتَاء (šitāʔ).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? šitā
Dari reading? šitā
Iranian reading? šetâ
Tajik reading? šito

Noun

Dari شتا
Iranian Persian
Tajik шито

شتا (šetâ)

  1. winter
    Synonym: زمستان (zemestân)

South Levantine Arabic

Root
ش ت و
3 terms

Etymology

From Arabic شِتَاء (šitāʔ).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃi.ta/,
  • Audio (Ramallah):(file)

Noun

شتا (šitam

  1. rain
  2. winter

See also

Seasons in South Levantine Arabic · فصول (fṣūl) (layout · text) · category
ربيع (rabīʕ, spring) صيف (ṣēf, summer) خريف (ḵarīf, autumn) شتا (šita, winter)