shirk

name

1. A surname.

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Arabic شِرْك (širk)bor. English shirk Borrowed from Arabic شِرْك (širk).

1. The unforgivable sin of association (claiming something or someone can share in the oneness of God).

   “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.”

verb

Etymology: First use appears c. 1633, in the publications of Shackerley Marmion, apparently from association with shark (verb), or otherwise directly from German Schurke (“rogue, knave”).

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

   “the usual makeshift by which they try to shirk difficulties”

   “Back in school, you ever get busted for trynna walk and have some administrator tell you / "Son, you can shirk your obligations, / and try to be different from your peers, / but responsibility, your future / is gonna find you!"”

2. 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.”

   “September 7, 1830, Lord Byron, letter to Mr. Murray One of the cities shirked from the league.”

3. 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.”