# شریعت
## Azerbaijani
### Noun

شریعت
* Arabic spelling of şəriət

## Chagatai
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic شَرِيعَة (šarīʕa).

### Noun

شریعت (transliteration needed)
* shari'a

#### Descendants

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

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

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

### Noun

شریعت • (şeriʼat) (definite accusative شریعتی (şeriʼatı), plural شرائغ (şeraiʼ))
* (Islam) shari'a, the traditional Islamic religious law primarily based on the Quran, but also the hadith and tafsir

#### Derived terms

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

#### Descendants

* 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

### Further reading

* 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 (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1187
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شریعت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, 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, 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, Vienna, column 2809
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “şeriat”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شریعت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1124

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic شَرِيعَة (šarīʕa).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ʃa.ɾiː.ˈʔat]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʃä.ɾeː.ʔǽt̪]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʃä.ɾeː.ʔǽt̪]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [ʃä.ɾi.jǽt̪]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [ʃä.ɾi.jǽt̪]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [ʃæ.ɹiː.ʔǽt̪]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [ʃä.ɾi.ʔǽt̪]

### Noun

| Dari | شریعت |
| Iranian Persian | شریعت |
| Tajik | шариат |
شَریعَت • (šari'at) (plural شرائع (šarâ'e'))
* (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 قضاdar šarī'at mar guwāh-ē-i banda rā nist qadr-ē waqt-i da'wā u qazāIn the religious law the testimony of a slave has no value at the time of litigation and judgement.

#### Derived terms

* شریعتی (šari'ati)

#### Descendants

* → Bengali: শরিয়ত (śoriẏot)
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: शरियत (śariyat)
    Urdu: شَرِیعَت (śarī'at)
*   * → Punjabi:
*   ** Gurmukhi script: ਸ਼ਰੀਅਤ (śarīata)
*   ** Shahmukhi script: شَرِیعَت (śarīʻat)
* → Rohingya: córiyót
* → Sindhi: شريعت

### Further reading

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

## Punjabi
### Etymology

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

### Noun

شَرِیعَت • (śarīʻat) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਸ਼ਰੀਅਤ)
* shari'a

### Further reading

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

## Urdu
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

شَرِیعَت • (śarī'at) f (formal plural شرائع, Hindi spelling शरियत)
* (Islam) shari'a
* (religion) divine law
* justice; law; ordinance
* threshold

#### Usage notes

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.

#### Descendants

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

### Further reading

* “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, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC