Sheri

Sheri

English

Etymology 1

Proper noun

Sheri

  1. A female given name, variant of Sherry.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish شرع (şerʿ, şeriʿ), from Arabic شَرْع (šarʕ).

Alternative forms

Noun

the Sheri

  2. Obsolete form of Shar
    • 1876, T. Ashcroft, The Turko-Servian War, page 16:
      The Sheri being based upon the Koran is held to be divine and immutable.
    • 1880, Edward Sell, The Faith of Islam, page 87:
      The law of the Sheri does not authorize the Khalíf to place beside him a power superior to his own.
    • 1888, The Ottoman Penal Code, pages 78–79:
      Whosever shall by misadventure be guilty of homicide, or shall have unintentionally occasioned the same, shall be sentenced by the judgment of the Court to make such compensation of a civil nature, as is due to the representatives of the deceased according to the law of the Sheri.

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