شرط

شَرَطَ • (šaraṭa) I (non-past يَشْرُطُ (yašruṭu) or يَشْرِطُ (yašriṭu), verbal noun شَرْط (šarṭ))

1. to make a condition, to stipulate
2. to make incisions in the skin, to scarify
3. to fasten with a string of palm bast
4. (Modern Standard Arabic) to tear into pieces

شَرَّطَ • (šarraṭa) II (non-past يُشَرِّطُ (yušarriṭu), verbal noun تَشْرِيط (tašrīṭ))

1. to scarify, to cup
2. (Modern Standard Arabic) to make small chains or rosaries

• → Middle Armenian: շառտել (šaṙtel), շառռտել (šaṙṙtel)

شَرْط • (šarṭ) m (plural شُرُوط (šurūṭ))

1. verbal noun of شَرَطَ (šaraṭa) (form I)
2. condition, reservation, proviso, stipulation, article of a compact, contract, requirement, prescription, obligation
3. incision, scarification

شَرْط • (šarṭ) (masculine plural أَشْرَاط (ʔašrāṭ), elative أَشْرَط (ʔašraṭ))

1. low, mean

شُرُط • (šuruṭ) pl

1. plural of شَرِيط (šarīṭ)

• IPA^(key): /ʃu.ratˤ/

شُرَط • (šuraṭ) pl

1. plural of شُرْطَة (šurṭa)

Borrowed from Arabic شَرْط (šarṭ, “condition”), verbal noun of شَرَطَ (šaraṭa, “to make a condition, to stipulate”).

شرط • (şart) (definite accusative شرطی (şartı), plural شرطلر (şartlar) or شرائط (şerait))

1. condition, requisite, requirement, necessity, something necessary or indispensable
2. stipulation, something that is stated or stipulated as a condition of an agreement
3. (grammar) condition, a logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses

• Turkish: şart
• → Albanian: shart
• → Armenian: շարթ (šartʻ), շերթ (šertʻ), շարդ (šard), շարտ (šart)
• → Romanian: șart

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şart1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4435
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “şart”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1172
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شرط”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 723
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Conditio”, 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 235
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “شرط”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2798
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “şart”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شرط”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1121

Borrowed from Arabic شَرْط (šarṭ).

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شرط • (šart) (plural شرایط (šarâyet), or شرط‌ها)

1. condition

   شرایط زندگی ― šarâyet-e zendegi ― living conditions, conditions of life

   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 309:

     دست و آلت همچو سنگ و آهن است
     جفت باید جفت شرط زادن است

     dast u ālat hamčō sang u āhan ast
     juft bāyad juft šart-i zādan ast

     Hand and tool are as stone and iron;
     there must be a pair: a pair is the condition for bringing to birth.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

• → Bashkir: шарт (şart)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: शर्त (śart)

  Urdu: شرط (śart)

• → Kazakh: шарт (şart)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਸ਼ਰਤ (śarat)

  Shahmukhi script: شرط (śart)

Borrowed from Classical Persian شرط (šart), from Arabic شَرْط (šarṭ).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ʃəɾt̪/

شَرْط • (šart) f (formal plural شرائط, Hindi spelling शर्त)

1. condition, term
2. wager, bet
3. provision, wage

• “شرط”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “شرط”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.