zuriya

Borrowed from Arabic ذُرِّيَّة (ḏurriyya).

• IPA^(key): /zù.rí.jàː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [zɪ̀.rɪ́.jàː]

zùr̃iyā̀ f (plural zur̃iyōyī, possessed form zùr̃iyàr̃)

1. progeny, descendant

From zuri- (“to sing badly”) +‎ -ya.

• IPA^(key): [ˈθuɾid͡ʒa]
• Hyphenation: zu‧ri‧ya

zuriya (uncountable)

1. (by birds) bad singing
2. (by birds) bad omen

• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎^[1], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 514