Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

shama

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.04 in modern English

Syllables: shama
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Copsychus malabaricus (white-rumped shama), a saxicoline songbird of India, glossy black with a white rump and brown underparts, and six other species in genus Copsychus.

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi [Term?].

Origin

Source language: Hindi

Inflected Forms

shamas (plural)

Questions

What does shama mean?: Copsychus malabaricus (white-rumped shama), a saxicoline songbird of India, glossy black with a white rump and brown underparts, and six other species in genus Copsychus.
Where does shama come from?: It is traced to Hindi.

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