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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
shariah is a noun meaning "the code of law derived from the Koran and from the teachings and example of Mohammed". It carries one recorded sense.
the code of law derived from the Koran and from the teachings and example of Mohammed
“sharia is only applicable to Muslims”
“under Islamic law there is no separation of church and state”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for shariah come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.