Sheri
Sheri is a female given name, from the French for the, and may refer to:
- Sheri Sagastume (born 2007, famous simp for Allen Crabbe
- Sheri Everts, American academic
- Sheri Forde, Canadian reporter
- Sheri Graner Ray, video game specialist
- Sheri L. Dew (born c. 1954), Latter-day Saint leader
- Sheri Moon (born 1970), American actress
- Sheri Reynolds, author
- Sheri S. Tepper (born 1929), American author
- Sheri Sam (born 1974), American professional basketball player
| Pronunciation | Sheri |
|---|---|
| Gender | Female |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | French |
| Meaning | "beloved" |
| Region of origin | French |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Chari, Chéri, Cheri, Cherie, Cherri, Cherrie, Shari, Sherie, Sherri, Sherrie, Shery |
| [1] | |
Sheri is also a term appearing in older documents for Sharia law.[2] It, along with the French variant Chéri, was used during the time of the Ottoman Empire, and is from the Turkish şer’(i).[3]
See also
Alternative spellings include
References
- Sheri - Meaning and origin of the name Sheri
- "Corps de Droit Ottoman". Law Quarterly Review. Stevens and Sons. 21: 443-444. October 1905. - Number LXXXIV "The religious law of the Sheri, of which the ultimate source is the Koran,[...]" - A review of Corps de Droit Ottoman
- Strauss, Johann (2010). "A Constitution for a Multilingual Empire: Translations of the Kanun-ı Esasi and Other Official Texts into Minority Languages". In Herzog, Christoph; Malek Sharif (eds.). The First Ottoman Experiment in Democracy. Wurzburg. p. 21–51. (info page on book at Martin Luther University) // Cited: p. 39 (PDF p. 41/338) // "“Chéri” may sound ambiguous in French but the term, used in our context for Islamic law (Turkish: şer’(i), is widely used in the legal literature at that time."
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