Crossword clues for shama
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shama \Sha"ma\, n. [Hind. sh[=a]m[=a].] (Zo["o]l.) A saxicoline singing bird ( Kittacincla macroura) of India, noted for the sweetness and power of its song. In confinement it imitates the notes of other birds and various animals with accuracy. Its head, neck, back, breast, and tail are glossy black, the rump white, the under parts chestnut.
Wiktionary
n. (taxlink Copsychus malabaricus species noshow=1), a saxicoline songbird of India, glossy black with a white rump and brown underparts.
Wikipedia
Shama may refer to:
- Shema Yisrael, Shama prayer in Judaism
- Shamas or Magpie-robins, of the genera Copsychus and Trichixos
- Shamma, a traditional garment worn by men in the highlands of Ethiopia
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Shama District, Ghana
- Shama, Ghana, capital of the district
- Shama (Ghana parliament constituency)
- Shama (film), a 1946 Bollywood film
- Shama Kabani (born 1985), entrepreneur and web personality
- Shama language, a Kainji language of Nigeria
- Shama, another name for Draupadi, wife of Pandavas
The Shama constituency is in the Western region of Ghana. The inhabitants of the town are mostly engaged in fishing and its related activities such as fish processing for local markets. The town has 20946 inhabitants. The town is in the Shama District.
Shama is a 1946 (pre- Independence) Bollywood film, directed by Sibtain Fazli, starring Mehtab, Chanda Bai, Sadat Ali and Ameen Banu in lead roles.
Usage examples of "shama".
He also played the shama, the balfone, the corea, and the obaen, but of these instruments nothing remains except their names.
Kesh must have hit the garrison at Shamata with an expeditionary force of dog soldiers.
Rumor had it Guy would also send the garrison at Shamata to the front once the fighting with Kesh had been settled, leaving every garrison in the Principality manned by soldiers loyal to Bas-Tyra.
Lord of Bas-Tyra rode into Shamata and ran his banner up above the walls.
It was during the move to Green Vale that he discovered that, in addition to the finer clothes of Shama and the children, those drawers contained Shama's marriage certificate and the birth certificates of her children.
He was surprised to see Shama filling a satchel with a slate, a slate pencil, a lead pencil, an eraser, an exercise book with the Union Jack on the cover, and _Nelson's West Indian Reader_, First Stage, by Captain J.
Within the girl who had served in the Tulsi Store and romped up and down the staircase of Hanuman House, the wit, the prankster, there were other Shamas, fully grown, it seemed, just waiting to be released: the wife, the housekeeper, and now the mother.
For the facetiousness that came to him as soon as he put pen to paper, and the fantasy he had hitherto dissipated in quarrels with Shama and in invective against the Tulsis, were just the things Mr.
But now Shama got invitations in her own right and during the Hindu wedding season she borrowed deeply from the rent money, committing herself to almost inextricable entanglement with her accounts, to buy presents, usually water-sets.
There had already been a row with Shama when he had used up the salary increase for a further three months to pay for the first two journalism lessons.