shirk

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see also: Shirk

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Pronunciation

• (RP) enPR: shûk, IPA: /ʃɜːk/
• (America) enPR: shûrk, IPA: /ʃɝk/

Verb

shirk (shirks, present participle shirking; past and past participle shirked)

1. (transitive) To avoid, especially a duty, responsibility, etc.; to stay away from.

   Synonyms: Thesaurus:shirk

   • the usual makeshift by which they try to shirk difficulties

2. (intransitive) To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away.

   If you have a job, don't shirk from it by staying off work.

   • One of the cities shirked from the league.

3. (transitive) To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation.

   • You that never heard the call of any vocation, […] that shirk living from others, but time from yourselves.

Translations

• French: esquiver, éviter, se défiler
• German: drücken, umgehen, meiden, ausweichen, aus dem Weg gehen, kneifen
• Italian: scansare, sottrarsi, dare buca, eludere
• Portuguese: esquivar
• Russian: сачкова́ть
• Spanish: correr, evadir, escaquearse, remolonear, ponerse al socaire

Noun

shirk (plural shirks)

1. One who shirks, who avoids a duty or responsibility.

   Synonyms: dodger

Pronunciation

• (non-rhotic) IPA: /ʃɪɾk/

Noun

shirk (uncountable)

1. (Islam) The unforgivable sin of idolatry.
   • 2013, James R. White, What Every Christian Needs to Know About the Qur'an, Baker Books (ISBN 9781441260529)

     A person can have committed shirk in their lifetime and still find forgiveness (especially by saying the Shahada and becoming a Muslim). The concept is that if one dies in this state (as a mushrik, an idolator, one who engages in and does not repent shirk), there is no forgiveness.

Related terms

• mushrik

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Shirk

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Proper noun

1. Surname

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