شریعت

See also: شريعت

Azerbaijani

Noun

شریعت

1. Arabic spelling of şəriət

Chagatai

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic شَرِيعَة (šarīʕa).

Noun

شریعت (transliteration needed)

1. shari'a

Descendants

• Uyghur: شەرىئەت (sheri'et)
• Uzbek: shariat

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic شَرِيعَة (šarīʕa, “shari'a, law”).

Noun

شریعت • (şeriʼat) (definite accusative شریعتی (şeriʼatı), plural شرائغ (şeraiʼ))

1. (Islam) shari'a, the traditional Islamic religious law primarily based on the Quran, but also the hadith and tafsir

Derived terms

• شریعتجی (şeriʼatcı, “legal assistant of a kazasker”)

Descendants

• Turkish: şeriat
• → Albanian: sheriat
• → Bulgarian: шериат (šeriat)
• → English: sheriat
• → French: chériat
• → German: Scheriat
• → Italian: sceriat
• → Macedonian: шеријат (šerijat)
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic script: шерѝјат
  • Latin script: šerìjat

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şeriat”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4462
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “şerîat”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1187
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شریعت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 726
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lex”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 939
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “شریعت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2809
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “şeriat”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شریعت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1124

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic شَرِيعَة (šarīʕa).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʃa.ɾiː.ˈʔat]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃä.ɾeː.ʔǽt̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃä.ɾeː.ʔǽt̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʃä.ɾi.jǽt̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʃä.ɾi.jǽt̪]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃæ.ɹiː.ʔǽt̪]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃä.ɾi.ʔǽt̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	šarī'at
Dari reading?	šarī'at
Iranian reading?	šari'at
Tajik reading?	šariʾat

Noun

Dari	شریعت
Iranian Persian
Tajik	шариат

شَریعَت • (šari'at) (plural شرائع (šarâ'e'))

1. (Islam) shari'a, religious law
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی, volume I, verse 3813:

     در شریعت مر گواهی بنده را
     نیست قدری وقت دعوی و قضا

     dar šarī'at mar guwāh-ē-i banda rā
     nist qadr-ē waqt-i da'wā u qazā

     In the religious law the testimony of a slave
     has no value at the time of litigation and judgement.

Derived terms

• شریعتی (šari'ati)

 

Descendants

• → Bengali: শরিয়ত (śoriẏot)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: शरियत (śariyat)

  Urdu: شَرِیعَت (śarī'at)

  • → Punjabi:
    • Gurmukhi script: ਸ਼ਰੀਅਤ (śarīata)
    • Shahmukhi script: شَرِیعَت (śarīʻat)

• → Rohingya: córiyót
• → Sindhi: شريعت

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “شریعت”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Punjabi

Etymology

Borrowed from Urdu شَرِیعَت (śarī'at), from Classical Persian شَرِیعَت (šarī'at), from Arabic شَرِيعَة (šarīʕa).

Noun

شَرِیعَت • (śarīʻat) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਸ਼ਰੀਅਤ)

1. shari'a

Further reading

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “شرِیعَت”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian شَرِیعَت (šarī'at), from Arabic شَرِيعَة (šarīʕa). First attested in c. 1421 as Middle Hindi شَرِیعَت (śry't).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ʃə.ɾiː.(ʔ)ət̪/
• Rhymes: -ət̪
• Hyphenation: شَ‧رِی‧عَت

Noun

شَرِیعَت • (śarī'at) f (formal plural شرائع, Hindi spelling शरियत)

1. (Islam) shari'a
2. (religion) divine law
3. justice; law; ordinance
4. threshold

Usage notes

While the term is usually associated with the Islamic law, known as the shari'a, it can be used to refer to any other divine laws.

Declension

Declension of شریعت
	singular	plural
direct	شریعت (śarīʻat)	شریعتیں (śarīʻatẽ)
oblique	شریعت (śarīʻat)	شریعتوں (śarīʻatõ)
vocative	شریعت (śarīʻat)	شریعتو (śarīʻato)

Descendants

• → Punjabi:
  • Gurmukhi script: ਸ਼ਰੀਅਤ (śarīata)
  • Shahmukhi script: شَرِیعَت (śarīʻat)

Further reading

• “شریعت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “شریعت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “شريعت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “شريعت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 727
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “شرع”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 816
• John Shakespear (1834) “شریعت”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC