شريعة

See also: سريعة

Arabic

Root
ش ر ع (š-r-ʕ)

Etymology

Compare Ge'ez ሥርዐት (śərʿät), Sabaean 𐩦𐩧𐩲 (s²rʿ).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʃa.riː.ʕa/
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Noun

شَرِيعَة • (šarīʕa) f (plural شَرَائِع (šarāʔiʕ))

(obsolete) way, path
- 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 45:18:
  ثُمَّ جَعَلْنَاكَ عَلَى شَرِيعَةٍ مِّنَ ٱلْأَمْرِ فَٱتَّبِعْهَا وَلَا تَتَّبِعْ أَهْوَاءَ ٱلَّذِينَ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ
  ṯumma jaʕalnāka ʕalā šarīʕatin mmina l-ʔamri fattabiʕhā walā tattabiʕ ʔahwāʔa llaḏīna lā yaʕlamūna
  "And now have We set thee on a clear road of commandment; so follow it, and follow not the whims of those who know not." (Surah al-Jathiya, Āyah 18, translated by Marmaduke Pickthall)
law and legislation
(Islam) sharia, law

Declension

Declension of noun شَرِيعَة (šarīʕa)

Singular	singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
Singular	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	شَرِيعَة šarīʕa	الشَّرِيعَة aš-šarīʕa	شَرِيعَة šarīʕat
Nominative	شَرِيعَةٌ šarīʕatun	الشَّرِيعَةُ aš-šarīʕatu	شَرِيعَةُ šarīʕatu
Accusative	شَرِيعَةً šarīʕatan	الشَّرِيعَةَ aš-šarīʕata	شَرِيعَةَ šarīʕata
Genitive	شَرِيعَةٍ šarīʕatin	الشَّرِيعَةِ aš-šarīʕati	شَرِيعَةِ šarīʕati
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	شَرِيعَتَيْن šarīʕatayn	الشَّرِيعَتَيْن aš-šarīʕatayn	شَرِيعَتَيْ šarīʕatay
Nominative	شَرِيعَتَانِ šarīʕatāni	الشَّرِيعَتَانِ aš-šarīʕatāni	شَرِيعَتَا šarīʕatā
Accusative	شَرِيعَتَيْنِ šarīʕatayni	الشَّرِيعَتَيْنِ aš-šarīʕatayni	شَرِيعَتَيْ šarīʕatay
Genitive	شَرِيعَتَيْنِ šarīʕatayni	الشَّرِيعَتَيْنِ aš-šarīʕatayni	شَرِيعَتَيْ šarīʕatay
Plural	basic broken plural diptote
Plural	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	شَرَائِع šarāʔiʕ	الشَّرَائِع aš-šarāʔiʕ	شَرَائِع šarāʔiʕ
Nominative	شَرَائِعُ šarāʔiʕu	الشَّرَائِعُ aš-šarāʔiʕu	شَرَائِعُ šarāʔiʕu
Accusative	شَرَائِعَ šarāʔiʕa	الشَّرَائِعَ aš-šarāʔiʕa	شَرَائِعَ šarāʔiʕa
Genitive	شَرَائِعَ šarāʔiʕa	الشَّرَائِعِ aš-šarāʔiʕi	شَرَائِعِ šarāʔiʕi

Descendants

→ Azerbaijani: şəriət
→ Bashkir: шәриғәт (şəriğət)
→ Chagatai: شریعت
- Uyghur: شەرىئەت (sheri'et)
- Uzbek: shariat
→ English: shari'a
→ Esperanto: ŝario
→ French: charia
→ German: Scharia
→ Italian: shari'a
→ Kazakh: шариғат (şariğat)
→ Maguindanao: seriat
→ Malay: syariat
- Indonesian: syariat
- → Tausug: sariat
→ Ottoman Turkish: شریعت (şeriat)
- 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
→ Pashto: شريعت
→ Persian: شریعت (šari'at)
- → Bengali: শরিয়ত (śoriẏot)
- → Hindustani:
  - Hindi: शरियत (śariyat)
  - Urdu: شَرِیعَت (śarī'at)
    - → Punjabi:
      - Gurmukhi script: ਸ਼ਰੀਅਤ (śarīata)
      - Shahmukhi script: شَرِیعَت (śarīʻat)
- → Rohingya: córiyót
- → Sindhi: شريعت
→ Swahili: sheria
→ Tatar: шәригать (şärigat’)
→ Turkmen: şerigat

References

Lane, Edward William (1863) “شريعة”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1535
Wehr, Hans (1979) “شرع”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 544

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