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شَرْعِيّ
legitimate /ʃarˈʕij.jun/
adjectiveB1#1601 most common
Also: lawful, legal, legitimate (offspring)
Example sentences
هٰذا حَقٌّ شَرْعِيّ.
This is a lawful right.
عِنْدَهُ سَبَبٌ شَرْعِيّ.
He has a legitimate reason.
الزَّواجُ الشَّرْعِيّ مُسَجَّلٌ في المَحْكَمَة.
The legal marriage is registered in the court.
لا يُمكِنُ تَنفيذُ العَقْدِ بِدونِ إِطارٍ شَرْعِيّ واضِح.
The contract cannot be executed without a clear legal framework.
يَرى الفُقَهاءُ أنَّ هٰذا الإِجْراءَ شَرْعِيٌّ ما دامَ لا يُخالِفُ النَّصَّ.
The jurists hold that this procedure is legitimate as long as it does not contradict the text.
إنَّ نَزْعَ الشَّرْعِيَّةِ عَنِ السُّلْطَةِ يَبدَأُ حينَ تَفقِدُ مُبَرِّرَها الشَّرْعِيَّ أمامَ النّاس.
Stripping authority of its legitimacy begins when it loses its lawful justification before the people.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | شَرْعِيٌّ | شَرْعِيّونَ |
| Genitive | شَرْعِيٍّ | شَرْعِيّينَ |
| Accusative | شَرْعِيًّا | شَرْعِيّينَ |
| Vocative | يا شَرْعِيُّ | يا شَرْعِيّونَ |
Word family
شَرْعlaw, divine ordinance
شَريعةIslamic law
شَرْعِيَّةlegitimacy
تَشريعlegislation
شَرَّعَto legislate, enact
Etymology
The word derives from the triliteral root sh-r-ʿ, tied to the verb sharaʿa, meaning to ordain or lay down a law. The same root gives sharīʿa, the divinely ordained path or Islamic law. As an adjective, sharʿī marks what conforms to that law, and by extension what is lawful or legitimate in a broader civil sense.
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