Arabic vocabulary

أَشْعَارpoetry in Arabic

أَشْعَار is how you say “poetry” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in real example sentences from classical texts below.

Example sentences

هاتوا من أشعاركم هاتوا من حديثكم
Bring your poetry, bring your stories
أَشْعَارِكُمْ — your poetry. Genitive after the partitive before it, with the attached -kum 'your' (plural) marking the possessors, 'your poetry'.
From: Stories That Soften the Heart →
هاتوا من ظرفكم هاتوا من أشعاركم،
Bring your wit, bring your poetry,
أَشْعَارِكُم — your poetry. Genitive after the partitive before it, with the attached -kum 'your' (plural) marking the possessors, 'your poetry'.
From: Stories That Soften the Heart →
وَكَانَ يُرْسِلُ أَشْعَارًا كَثِيرَةً إِلَى بَغْدَادِ
He would send many poems to Baghdad.
أَشْعَارًا — poems. This is the direct object of 'send' and it is plural in an irregular, internally reshaped way: the word changes its inner pattern to mark 'many', rather than just adding an ending. The -an ending shows it is an indefinite object, so 'poems' here means some unspecified, uncounted poems.
From: An Exiled Scholar's Trials →

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