شهادة

• IPA^(key): /ʃa.haː.da/

شَهَادَة • (šahāda) f (plural شَهَادَات (šahādāt))

1. (uncountable) verbal noun of شَهِدَ (šahida) (form I)
2. (law) testimony, witness
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 24:4:

     وَٱلَّذِينَ يَرْمُونَ ٱلْمُحْصَنَاتِ ثُمَّ لَمْ يَأْتُوا بِأَرْبَعَةِ شُهَدَاءَ فَٱجْلِدُوهُمْ ثَمَانِينَ جَلْدَةً وَلَا تَقْبَلُوا لَهُمْ شَهَادَةً أَبَدًا وَأُولَٰئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْفَاسِقُونَ

     wallaḏīna yarmūna l-muḥṣanāti ṯumma lam yaʔtū biʔarbaʕati šuhadāʔa fajlidūhum ṯamānīna jaldatan walā taqbalū lahum šahādatan ʔabadan waʔūlāʔika humu l-fāsiqūna

     As for those who accuse chaste women and do not bring four witnesses, strike them eighty lashes, and never accept any testimony from them after that, and they are transgressors.

3. statement
4. certificate, certification, testimonial, affidavit
5. diploma
6. (education) transcript
7. attestation, attest
8. credentials, identification
9. creed; credo
10. (Islam) shahada: the basic Islamic creed, or one of its two parts, i.e. faith in one God and in Muhammad as his prophet; collectively also called الشَّهَادَتَانِ (aš-šahādatāni)
11. martyrdom

• Maltese: xhieda
• → Bengali: শাহাদাত (śahadat)
• → English: shahada
• → Hausa: shàhādā̀
• → Punjabi: ਸ਼ਹਾਦਤ / شہادت (śahādat)
• → Swahili: shahada

• شهادتان on the Arabic Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ar