شرك

شَرِكَ • (šarika) I (non-past يَشْرَكُ (yašraku), verbal noun شِرْك (širk) or شِرْكَة (širka) or شَرِكَة (šarika))

1. (obsolete) to have the shoe strings broken
2. (transitive) to share, to participate with (someone)
3. to become a partner, to be a participant, to be an associate

The meaning of associating partners to a god or sharing allegiance across multiple gods is, according to Jeffery 1938, a semantic loan from Old South Arabian 𐩦𐩧𐩫 (s²rk).

شِرْك • (širk) m (plural أَشْرَاك (ʔašrāk))

1. verbal noun of شَرِكَ (šarika) (form I)
2. (uncountable, Islam) polytheism, idolatry
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 31:13:

     وَإِذْ قَالَ لُقْمَانُ لِٱبْنِهِ وَهُوَ يَعِظُهُ يَا بُنَيَّ لَا تُشْرِكْ بِٱللّٰهِۖ إِنَّ ٱلشِّرْكَ لَظُلْمٌ عَظِيمٌ

     waʔiḏ qāla luqmānu libnihi wahuwa yaʕiẓuhu yā bunayya lā tušrik bi-l-lāhi ʔinna š-širka laẓulmun ʕaẓīmun

     When Luqman said to his son, as he advised him: "O my son! Do not ascribe any partners to God. Polytheism is indeed a great injustice."

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 35:14:

     إِن تَدْعُوهُمْ لَا يَسْمَعُوا دُعَاءَكُمْ وَلَوْ سَمِعُوا مَا ٱسْتَجَابُوا لَكُمْۖ وَيَوْمَ ٱلْقِيَامَةِ يَكْفُرُونَ بِشِرْكِكُمْۚ وَلَا يُنَبِّئُكَ مِثْلُ خَبِيرٍ

     ʔin tadʕūhum lā yasmaʕū duʕāʔakum walaw samiʕū mā stajābū lakum wayawma l-qiyāmati yakfurūna biširkikum walā yunabbiʔuka miṯlu ḵabīrin

     If you invoke them they will not hear your invocation, and even if they heard they cannot respond to you, and on the Day of Resurrection they will forswear your polytheism, and none can inform you like the One who is all-aware.

3. (countable) share

• → English: shirk
• → Persian: شرک (šerk)
• → Japanese: シルク (shiruku)
• → Malay: شيريک (syirik)
  • Indonesian: syirik, sirik
• → Urdu: شرک (širk)

شَرَك • (šarak) m (plural شُرُك (šuruk) or أَشْرَاك (ʔašrāk) or شِرَاك (širāk))

1. net, snare, trap, booby trap

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

شُرُك • (šuruk) m pl

1. plural of شِرَاك (širāk, “shoelace”)
2. plural of شَرَك (šarak, “net, snare”)

شُرُك • (šuruk)

1. spurious, unsound, phony, false

• Freytag, Georg (1833) “شرك”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 415–416
• Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, pages 185–186
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “شرك”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 651

• IPA^(key): /ʃrak/

From Arabic شَرِكَ (šarika).

شرك • (šrak) I (non-past يشرك (yišrak))

1. to share

   شركته معاه. ― šraktu mʕāh. ― I shared it with him.

2. to become a partner, to be a participant, to be an associate

   شركت معاه فديك القهوة. ― šrakt mʕāh f-dīk el-qahwa. ― I became his partner in that café.

1=ش
2=ر
3=ك
4=š
5=r
6=k

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

From Arabic أَشْرَكَ (ʔašraka).

شرك • (šrak) I (non-past يشرك (yišrak))

1. to commit shirk

   شرك بالله ― šrak b-ellāh ― He committed shirk

1=ش
2=ر
3=ك
4=š
5=r
6=k

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• IPA^(key): /ʃirk/

From Arabic شِرْك (širk).

شرك • (širk) m

1. (uncountable, Islam) polytheism, idolatry

• IPA^(key): /ʃar.raɡ/

From Arabic شَرَّجَ (šarraja).

شرك • (šarrag) II (non-past يشرك (yšarrag))

1. to rip, to tear

   Synonym: قطع (qaṭṭaʕ)

   علاش شركتي سروالك؟ ― ʕlāš šarragti sarwālek? ― Why did you tear your trousers?

• شرڭ (šarrag), شرگ (šarrag)