Word.ws English Dictionary

Shammar

Shammar noun: a tribal Arab Qahtan confederation, descended from the Yemeni tribe of Tayy as they originated in Yemen before migrating into present-day Saudi Arabia.

Noun

Shammar pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) A tribal Arab Qahtan confederation, descended from the Yemeni tribe of Tayy as they originated in Yemen before migrating into present-day Saudi Arabia.

Origin of Shammar

From Arabic شَمَّر (šammar).

Questions about Shammar

What does Shammar mean?
Shammar means a tribal Arab Qahtan confederation, descended from the Yemeni tribe of Tayy as they originated in Yemen before migrating into present-day Saudi Arabia.
What part of speech is Shammar?
Shammar is a noun.

Words near Shammar in the dictionary

  1. shamlas
  2. Shamli
  3. shamma
  4. Shammaite
  5. Shammaites
  6. Shammar
  7. shammas
  8. Shammases
  9. shammash
  10. shammashim
  11. shammasim

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Shammar (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Shammar.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/shammar. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.