shirk
shirk Lexical Profile
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• verb
To avoid or neglect a duty, work, or responsibility, especially out of laziness or cowardice.
"A responsible manager will never shirk difficult obligations when the team faces a crisis."
• noun
A person who habitually evades work, duty, or responsibility.
"No one wanted to be paired with a known shirk on the demanding group project."
In Islam, the sin of practicing idolatry or polytheism, specifically the deification or worship of anyone or anything besides God.
"Classical Islamic scholars wrote extensively on the theological distinction between monotheism and shirk."
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Word Origin & Etymology
First recorded in the late 16th century as a noun meaning a parasite or sharper, probably borrowed from German Schurke ('scoundrel, villain'), from Old High German firscurgo. In Islamic theology, the homograph 'shirk' derives independently from Arabic širk, meaning 'association' or 'polytheism'.