# شریف
## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic شَرِيف (šarīf, “noble, honored”).

### Adjective

شریف • (şerif)
* noble, highborn, of or relating to the nobility, especially in contrast to the masses
    Synonym: اصیل (asil)
* noble, gracious, magnanimous, having moral eminence and freedom from anything petty
    Synonym: كریم (kerim)
* holy, sacred, godly, characterized by solemn religious ceremony or religious use
    Synonyms: عزیز (ʼazîz), مبارك (mübârek), مقدس (mukaddes)

### Noun

شریف • (şerif) (definite accusative شریفی (şerifi), plural اشراف (eşrâf) or شرفا (şürefâ))
* (Islam, historical) shereef, a member of an Arab princely family descended from Muhammad through his son-in-law Ali and daughter Fatima

#### Derived terms

* حط شریف (hatt-ı şerif, “sacred rescript of the Sultan”)
* شام شریف (şam-ı şerif, “Damascus”)
* شریف مكه (şerif-i mekke, “governor of Mecca”)
* شریفه (şerife, “lady descendant of Muhammad”)
* قدس شریف (kudus-ı şerif, “Jerusalem, the Holy”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: şerif

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şerif1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4462
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “şerîf”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1187
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شریف”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 726
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Nobilis”, 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 1142
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “شریف”, 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–) “şerif1”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شریف”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1124

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic شَرِيف (šarīf).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ʃa.ˈɾiːf]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʃä.ɾíːf]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʃä.ɾíːf]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [ʃä.ɾíːf]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [ʃä.ɾíf]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [ʃæ.ɹíːf]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [ʃä.ɾíf]

### Adjective

شریف • (šarif)
* noble, aristocratic
    مرد شریف ― mard-e šarif ― noble man
    دودمانی شریف ― dudmâni šarif ― an aristocratic lineage
** c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 1428:چون که دزدی باری آن در لطیف چون که حامل میشوی باری شریفčōn ki duzdī bār-ē ān dar latīf čōn ki hāmil mē-šawī bār-ē-i šarīfAs you (must) steal, at any rate (let it be) that lovely pearl; as you are going to bear a burden, at any rate (let it be) a noble one.
* (honorific) Used as an honorific adjective.
    اسم شریف شما ― esm-e šarif-e šomâ ― your illustrious name

### Noun

شریف • (šarif) (plural اشراف (ašrâf) or شرفا (šorafâ) or شریفان (šarifân))
* noble, aristocrat
    طبقه اشراف ― tabaqe-ye ašrâf ― aristocratic classes
* (historical) the Sharif of Mecca

### Proper noun

شریف • (šarif)
* a surname, Sharif, from Arabic
    مجید شریف ― majid-e šarif ― Majid Sharif (Iranian writer)

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian شَرِیف (šarīf), from Arabic شَرِيف (šarīf).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /ʃə.ɾiːf/

### Adjective

شَرِیف • (śarīf) (Hindi spelling शरीफ़)
* meek, gentle, noble, upstanding