شرع

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See also: سرع, ش ر ع, and س ر ع

Arabic

Etymology 1

Root
ش ر ع (š r ʕ)
12 terms

Verb

شَرَعَ (šaraʕa) I (non-past يَشْرَعُ (yašraʕu), verbal noun شَرْع (šarʕ))

  1. to prescribe a road to walk upon or a law to follow, to lead, to give laws
  2. to have an outlet into the street
  3. to publish
  4. to be open and distinct
  5. to strip the skin
  6. to lift very high
Conjugation
References

Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “شرع”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen

Verb

شَرَعَ (šaraʕa) I (non-past يَشْرَعُ (yašraʕu), verbal noun شَرْع (šarʕ) or شُرُوع (šurūʕ))

  1. to go (into the water)
  2. to engage in a business, to begin
  3. to make ready for
  4. to be straight
  5. to stretch the neck
Conjugation
References

Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “شرع”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen

Verb

شَرَّعَ (šarraʕa) II (non-past يُشَرِّعُ (yušarriʕu), verbal noun تَشْرِيع (tašrīʕ))

  1. to mark or show the way distinctly
  2. to open a path
  3. to lead the cattle to the most convenient watering place
  4. to make clear
  5. to lift up
Conjugation
References

Etymology 2

Noun

شَرْع (šarʕm

  1. verbal noun of شَرَعَ (šaraʕa) (form I)
Declension

Etymology 3

Noun

شُرُع (šuruʕm pl

  1. plural of شِرَاع (širāʕ)

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic شَرْع (šarʕ).

Pronunciation

Noun

شرع (šar')

  1. religious law