شریعت

شریعت

1. Arabic spelling of şəriət

Borrowed from Arabic شَرِيعَة (šarīʕa).

شریعت (transliteration needed)

1. shari'a

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

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

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

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

• 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

• 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] (in French), 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

Borrowed from Arabic شَرِيعَة (šarīʕa).

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 [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], 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.

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

  Hindi: शरियत (śariyat)

  Urdu: شَرِیعَت (śarī'at)

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

• → Rohingya: córiyót
• → Sindhi: شريعت

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

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

شَرِیعَت • (śarīʻat) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਸ਼ਰੀਅਤ)

1. shari'a

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

• “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, 2025.
• 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