Usually means: Associating partners with God religiously.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word shirk:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. shirk: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shirk: Merriam-Webster
  3. shirk: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shirk: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. shirk: Collins English Dictionary
  6. shirk: Vocabulary.com
  7. Shirk, shirk: Wordnik
  8. shirk: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Shirk, shirk: Wiktionary
  10. shirk: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. shirk: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. shirk: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. shirk: Dictionary.com
  14. shirk: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. shirk: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Shirk (Islam), Shirk (idolatry), Shirk (polytheism), Shirk: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Shirk: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. shirk: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. shirk: Rhymezone
  20. shirk: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. shirk: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. shirk: FreeDictionary.org
  23. shirk: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. shirk: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. shirk: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. shirk: Legal dictionary
  2. shirk: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shirk: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shirk: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Muttaqun OnLine Islamic Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Islamic Terms and Concepts (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. shirk: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. shirk: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See shirked as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To avoid, especially a duty, responsibility, etc.; to stay away from.
verb:  (intransitive) To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away.
verb:  (transitive) To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation.
noun:  One who shirks, who avoids a duty or responsibility.
noun:  (Islam) The unforgivable sin of association (of something with God).
noun:  A surname.

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