chéri
Appearance
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Participle
[edit]chéri (feminine chérie, masculine plural chéris, feminine plural chéries)
- past participle of chérir
Adjective
[edit]chéri (feminine chérie, masculine plural chéris, feminine plural chéries)
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]chéri m (plural chéris, feminine chérie)
- dear, darling, honey, sweetheart
- Pleure pas, mon chéri, maman est là.
- Don't cry, sweetie; Mommy's here.
- 1973, Jean Eustache, La Maman et la Putain, spoken by Marie:
- Ma chérie, je crois que tu as assez bu.
- My darling, I think you've drunk enough.
Further reading
[edit]- “chéri”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Etymology 2
[edit]Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish شرع (şerʿ, şeriʿ), from Arabic شَرْع (šarʕ).
Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]chéri m (uncountable)
- (Islam) Shar (shari'a)
- 1877, A. Ubicini, La Constitution ottomane du 7 zilhidjé 1293 (23 décembre 1876), Paris: A. Cotillon, page 42:
- Les affaires concernant le chéri sont jugés par les tribunaux du chéri (2) ; le jugement des affaires civiles appartient aux tribunaux civils (3).
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1878, Russes et Turcs, volume 2, Paris, page 1123:
- Les tribunaux du chéri ne connaîtront que des contestations entre musulmans.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1889, Le Globe, volume 28, Geneva, page 76:
- L’administration de la justice comprend, à Erzeroum, un tribunal du chéri, deux tribunaux civils, un tribunal de commerce et deux tribunaux correctionnels.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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