sharia
Spanish, noun
sharia is spelled S-H-A-R-I-A (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish, the 46,380th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sharia is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “alternative form of sharía” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, sharía is a different word: “shari'a”.
What does sharia mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininealternative form of sharía
noun
- 1
feminineshari'a
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Código de leyes del islam, en el que se incluyen sus normas relativas a los modos de dicho culto, los criterios de su moral y de su vida, aquello que tienen permitido o prohibido y las reglas separadoras entre lo que consideran el bien o el mal.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of sharia
- sharias plural
- sharías plural
- sharia alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to sharia
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sharia in Spanish?
sharia appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).