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))

1. (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)

2. law and legislation
3. (Islam) sharia, law

Declension

Declension of noun شَرِيعَة (šarīʕa)

Singular	singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
	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
	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^[1], 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