sharia
noun/ʃəˈriːə/
/ʃəˈriːə/
(also shariah)
[uncountable]- Islamic religious law based on the teachings of the Koran and the traditional sayings of MuhammadOxford Collocations DictionarySharia is used before these nouns:
- court
- law
Word Originfrom Arabic šarī‘a; the variant shariat from Urdu and Persian.
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