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شیرک — English and Urdu Meaning, Phonetics and Definition

s̱ẖīrak
Pronunciation:Standard: /s̱ẖīrak/
n. m.Masculineplural: شیرکانOrigin: Persian → PashtoVerified sense 1
Quick Lexicographical Summary · چټک تعریف او پېژندنه

شیرک (s̱ẖīrak) is a Pashto n. m. meaning “A hero, a champion (dimin. of شیر s̱ẖīr , A lion)” in English او په اردو کې د «[کلاسيک / تاريخي]» معنی لري. Documented in the Open Pashto Lexicon with dual Kandahari and Peshawari phonetic standards, plural form شیرکان, and 8 verified thesaurus relations.

Meanings2

ماناوې او تعریفونه
1
A hero, a champion (dimin. of شیر s̱ẖīr , A lion)[classical]
[کلاسيک / تاريخي]
Page 667 in Raverty (1860). Origin: Persian
Example in context:

شوې نه وی

Source: PashDict Unified Lexicon · Register: classicalStatus: verified
2
Infidelity, paganism ; com- pany, society, partnership, a[classical]
Example in context:

شوې نه وی، شیرګی ، شیرګۍ

Source: PashDict Unified Lexicon · Register: classicalStatus: verified

Thesaurus: Synonyms & Antonyms(مترادفات او متضادات)

Semantic lexical relations verified from Achakzai Pashto Thesaurus & corpus data

Grammar — Word forms

د کلمې ګردان او بڼې
OpenPashto Morphology
Grammatical Formحالت او بڼه
پښتو بڼهPashto Form
Phoneticتلفظ
Plural (Classical)
شیرکانشیرکان
Dir Plural (-ūnah)
شیرکونهs̱ẖīrak-ūnah
Obl Plural (-ūno)
شیرکونوs̱ẖīrak-ūno
Animate Obl Plural (-āno)
شیرکانوs̱ẖīrak-āno
Vocative Singular (-a)
شیرکهs̱ẖīrak-a

Examples from corpora2

قاموسي او ادبي شواهد

Attested real-world sentences grouped by source. Headwords highlighted in context.

Academy Tashrihi Dictionary

شوې نه وی

Qalandar Momand (Daryab)

شوې نه وی، شیرګی ، شیرګۍ

د کلمې اصل او ریښه(Word Origin & Etymology)
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Persian

Persian (Raverty 1860)

PashDict Sovereign 34-to-1 Unified LexiconVerified Trilingual Academic Edition · CC BY 4.0

Lexicographical Profile & Dialect Notes

علمي او ژبني معلومات

Grammar & Morphological Classification

The headword شیرک (s̱ẖīrak) functions as a n. m. in standard Pashto lexicography. It is categorized under the Masculine nominal class. This entry synthesizes lexical evidence from 34 authoritative Afghan and international Pashto dictionaries, cross-referenced with modern frequency corpora to ensure trilingual accuracy.

Phonological & Dialectal Realization

Pronunciation diverges between the Southwestern (Kandahari) dialect and the Northeastern (Peshawari/Kabuled) standard. In Southwestern speech, phonemes maintain retroflex fricative distinctions, whereas Northeastern phonetics exhibit velar and postalveolar shifts. All acoustic transcriptions conform to the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) standards adopted by the Pashto Academy.

Peer-reviewed lexicographical standard · Open Pashto Corpus Edition

Nearby words

نږدې او ورته لغتونه