Definition of Shaya

1. an Indian plant [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shaya

shawlie
shawlies
shawling
shawlings
shawlless
shawllike
shawls
shawm
shawms
shawnees
shawny
shaws
shawties
shawty
shay
shaya (current term)
shayas
shays
shaytan
shaytans
shazaam
shazam
shcherbakovite
shcherbinaite
shchi
shchis
shd
she'd

Literary usage of Shaya

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. God's Remnants: Stories of Israel Among the Nations by Samuel Gordon (1916)
"shaya or no shaya, he must do her bidding, or else she might really not ... For such a happy death he need not grudge shaya a hundred happy years of life. ..."

2. The Metropolitan (1832)
"So Fingal ran into his house, and called to his wife shaya, ... cries shaya, ' you'll wake the babby, and then him that you talk of bating will be the death ..."

3. Dictionary of the Hausa Language by Charles Henry Robinson, Hausa Association, London (1913)
"... a white ass. shaya, a bird about the size of a starling, with bright blue- ... colouring. shaya, a kind of shirt worn by women, shaya, to mark out, ..."

4. The Tarikh-i-rashidi: A History of the Moghuls of Central Asia; an English by Dughlát Muhammad Haidar, N. Elias, Edward Denison Ross (1895)
"But now we offer our services, out of attachment to you, and in all sincerity." [Verses.] They gave us the castle of shaya, which is the capital of ..."

5. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1877)
"It occurs in the following pronouns, nouns and verbs : shaya, shai /, myself. hetet-sha whereto f ..."

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