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Shamma is a feminine given name of Arabic origin meaning "proud."
The name is also used as an Arabic surname (or family name).
Usage examples of "shamma".
Four of them wore the long flowing white shammas, full-length robes like Roman togas draped across the shoulder.
They hoisted up the skirts of their shammas to crouch behind the demonstration machine gun and traversed it happily, making the staccato schoolboy imitations of automatic fire as they mowed down imaginary hordes of their enemies.
Closer came the mass of riders until the bright spots of the silk shammas of the officers and noblemen showed clearly through the loom of the dust cloud.
All they could do was pull their dusty shammas over their heads and endure the bone-jarring, bowel-shaking detonations and breathe the filthy fume-laden air.
The Dessie road was choked for a dozen miles with the slow unwieldy column of the retreat, the ragged files of trudging figures, bowed in the rain, their heads covered with their shammas, their bare feet sliding and slipping in the mud.
From the corner of her eye Vicky saw other running Gallas, racing in from the main road of the village, their long shammas flapping about them as they ran to head them off.
From the corner of her eye Vicky saw other running Gallas, racing in from the main road of the village, their long shammas flapping about them as they ran to head them off.