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مَشاعِر

feelings /maˈʃaːʕir/

nounB1#1757 most common

Also: emotions, sentiments, sensations

Example sentences

مَشاعِري قَوِيّة.
My feelings are strong.
لا تَجرَحْ مَشاعِري.
Don't hurt my feelings.
شارَكتُها مَشاعِري.
I shared my feelings with her.
مِنَ الصَّعبِ التَّعبيرُ عَنِ المَشاعِر بِالكَلِمات.
It is hard to express feelings in words.
حاوَلَ أَن يُخفي مَشاعِرَهُ الحَقيقِيّة عَنِ الجَميع.
He tried to hide his true feelings from everyone.
تَختَلِطُ المَشاعِرُ بَينَ الفَرَحِ وَالحُزنِ في لَحَظاتِ الوَداع.
Feelings mix between joy and sorrow in moments of farewell.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeمَشْعَرٌمَشاعِرُ
Genitiveمَشْعَرٍمَشاعِرَ
Accusativeمَشْعَراًمَشاعِرَ
Vocativeيا مَشْعَرُيا مَشاعِرُ

Word family

شُعورfeeling, consciousness
شاعِرpoet
شِعرpoetry
شَعَرَto feel, to perceive

Etymology

The word comes from the Semitic root ش-ع-ر (sh-ʿ-r), which carries the sense of perceiving, sensing, and knowing. The singular مَشْعَر means a point or site of perception, and the broken plural مَشاعِر came to mean the inner senses, that is, emotions. The same root produces شِعر, poetry, and شاعِر, poet, since the poet is one who perceives keenly.

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