The story
- Arabic · borrowed fromشِيعَة“sect, faction, party; [collectively] followers, partisans”
- English todayShi'a
From Arabic شِيعَة (šīʕa, “sect, faction, party; [collectively] followers, partisans”), as the word has been used in شِيعَة عَلِيّ (šīʕat ʕalī, “the faction of Ali; [collectively] the followers of Ali”) or الشِّيعَة (aš-šīʕa, “the Faction; the Followers”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.