مَشْوَرَةٌ

and ↓ مَشُورَةٌ and ↓ شُورَى signify the same: (S:) the first and second are substs. from شَاوَرَهُ, and the third is a subst. from تَشَاوَرُوا: (Msb:) or the first (Lth) and second [which is written in the CK مَشْوَرَةٌ] (Lth, K) and third (K) are from الإِشَارَةُ (Lth) or أَشَارَ عَلَيْهِ: (K:) [they signify Consultation; or mutual debate in order that one may see another's opinion; or counsel, or advice: or a command, an order, or an injunction: or] the extracting, or drawing forth, opinion: (Bd, as mentioned above: see 6:) ↓ مَشُورَةٌ [in the CK مَشْوَرَةٌ] is of the measure مَفْعُلَةٌ, [originally مَشْوُرَةٌ, in the CK مَفْعَلَةٌ,] not مَفْعُولَةٌ, (K, TA,) because it is a verbal noun, [or rather a quasi-verbal noun,] and such a noun has not this last measure: (TA:) it is like مَعُونَةٌ; (Msb;) and is a contraction of مَشْوُرَةٌ: (Fr, TA:) and it is said also to be from شَارَ الدَّابَّةَ; or, according to some, from شَارَ العَسَلَ; good counsel or advice being likened to honey. (Msb.) One says, عَلَيْكَ بِالْمَشْوَرَةِ فِى أُمُورِكَ and ↓ بِالْمَشُورَةِ [Keep thou to consultation, or take counsel, in thine affairs]. (A.) And ↓ فُلَانٌ جَيِّدُ المَشُورَةِ and المَشْوَرَةِ [Such a one is good, or excellent, in consultation, or counsel]. (TA.) And ↓ أَمْرُهُمْ شُورَى بَيْنَهُمْ, like امرهم فَوْضَى بينهم, [Their affair, or case, is a thing to be determined by consultation among themselves,] i. e., none of them is to appropriate a thing to himself exclusively of others. (Msb.) It is said of 'Omar, ↓ تَرَكَ الخِلَافَةَ شُورَى (A, Mgh) He left the office of Khaleefeh as a thing to be determined by consultation: for he assigned it to one of six; not particularizing for it any one of them; namely, 'Othmán and 'Alee and Talhah and Ez-Zubeyr and 'Abd-Er-Rahmán Ibn-'Owf and Saad Ibn-Abee-Wakkás. (Mgh.) And one says also, ↓ النَّاسُ فِيهِ شُورَى [The people are to determine by consultation respecting it]. (A.)