شِرْعَةٌ

See شَرِيعَةٌ.

Also A custom. (TA.)

See also شِرْعٌ, first sentence, in three places.

-A2- Also A snare for the birds called قَطًا, (Lth, O, K, TA,) with which to capture them, (O, TA,) made of sinews: (Lth, O, TA:) plural شِرَعٌ. (O.)

Also, (S, O, K,) and ↓ شَرْعَةٌ, (K,) A string, or chord: (S, O, K, TA:) or such as is slender: or while continuing stretched upon the bow; (TA;) and so ↓ شِرَاعٌ; (Lth, O, K;) or upon the lute; and so ↓ شِرَاعٌ: (TA:) the plural [or rather coll. gen. n.] (of ↓ شِرْعَةٌ, S, O, [i. e. of this n. un. meaning the “ chord of a lute, ” as is shown by exs. in the O and TA,]) is ↓ شِرْعٌ (S, O, K) and (that of ↓ شَرْعَةٌ, TA) ↓ شَرْعٌ, (O, K, TA,) like as تَمْرٌ is of تَمْرَةٌ, (O, TA,) and [the plural properly so termed] (of شِرْعَةٌ, S, O) شِرَعٌ, and plural plural شِرَاعٌ: (S, O, K:) and the plural of ↓ شِرَاعٌ as a singular synonym with شِرْعَةٌ is شُرُعٌ. (TA.)