Sheri Explained
| Sheri |
| Pronunciation: | Sheri |
| Gender: | Female |
| Meaning: | "beloved" |
| Region: | French |
| Origin: | French |
| Related Names: | Chari, Chéri, Cheri, Cherie, Cherri, Cherrie, Shari, Sherie, Sherri, Sherrie, Shery |
| Footnotes: | [1] |
Sheri is a female given name, from the French for beloved, and may refer to:
- Sheri Anderson, American TV writer
- Sheri Everts, American academic
- Sheri Forde, Canadian reporter
- Sheri Krams, American immunologist and academic administrator
- 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 (1929–2016), American author
- Sheri Sam (born 1974), American professional basketball player
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
Notes and References
- http://www.babynames.co.uk/meaning_origin_name_Sheri.htm Sheri - Meaning and origin of the name Sheri
- Corps de Droit Ottoman. Law Quarterly Review. 21. Stevens and Sons. October 1905. 443-444. - Number LXXXIV "The religious law of the Sheri, of which the ultimate source is the Koran,[...]" - A review of Corps de Droit Ottoman
- Book: Strauss, Johann. https://menadoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/menalib/download/pdf/2734659?originalFilename=true . 2010 . A Constitution for a Multilingual Empire: Translations of the Kanun-ı Esasi and Other Official Texts into Minority Languages . Herzog, Christoph. Malek Sharif. The First Ottoman Experiment in Democracy. Wurzburg. 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."
