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shareef

shareef adjective: meek, gentle, gentlemanly, upstanding, innocent.

Adjective

shareef (comparative more shareef, superlative most shareef)

  1. (India) meek, gentle, gentlemanly, upstanding, innocent
    • Sling bags are another variety that have caught the fancy of DU students because of their sheer style. "They come in so many designs and sizes. The big ones make you look like a very shareef student, which is a good thing sometimes..."2011 June 27, Muskaan Tandon, “DU's bagging it”, in The Times of India

Proper noun capitalized: Shareef

Shareef (plural Shareefs)

  1. A surname from Arabic.

Forms of shareef

Adjective
comparativemore shareef
superlativemost shareef
Proper noun
pluralShareefs

Origin of shareef

From Hindi शरीफ़ (śarīf)/Urdu شریف, from Arabic شَرِيف (šarīf).

Variant of Sharif.

Questions about shareef

What does shareef mean?
Shareef means meek, gentle, gentlemanly, upstanding, innocent.
What part of speech is shareef?
Shareef can be an adjective or a proper noun.

Words near shareef in the dictionary

  1. sharedealer
  2. sharedealers
  3. sharedealing
  4. sharedness
  5. sharee
  6. shareef
  7. Shareefs
  8. sharees
  9. sharefarmer
  10. sharefarmers
  11. sharefarming

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