shirk

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  1. transitive verb To avoid or neglect (a duty or responsibility).
  2. intransitive verb To avoid work or duty.

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  • There was one thing none of us might shirk, and that was regular attendance at kirk on Sunday. —  The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent
  • Even more suspiciously the word shirk and shark around this time held this same identical meaning-though there's no indication why someone might apply a word meaning "cheat" to a huge weird fish. —  podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & history
  • A true Orthodox Jew actively seeks to remove shirk (polytheism) with all his capacity. —  Israpundit
  • So fight them until there is no more shirk, and none is worshipped except Allaah alone with no partner or associate, and trials and calamities, which are disbelief and polytheism, are lifted from the slaves of Allaah on earth, and religion is all for Allaah alone, and so that obedience and worship will be devoted to Him alone and none else. —  Lionheart
  • Ibn Katheer said: Allaah commands us to fight the kuffaar so that there will be no fitnah, i.e., shirk, and the religion will all be for Allaah alone, i.e., the religion of Allaah will prevail over all other religions. —  Lionheart
 

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shirk:   shirking ·  shirked
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  1. Perhaps from German Schurke, scoundrel; akin to Old High German fiurscurgo, demon : fiur, fire + scurigen, to stir up.

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  1. More properly sherk; apparently the same as shark (cf. clerk and clark, Middle English derk and English dark): see shark.
  2. See shirk, v., and shark, n.
 

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