different between shirk vs rid

English

Etymology 1

First attested use in 1625–1635, apparently from association with shark (verb), or otherwise directly from German Schurke (“rogue, knave”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: shûk, IPA^(key): /???k/
• (General American) enPR: shûrk, IPA^(key): /??k/
• Rhymes: -??(r)k

Verb

shirk (third-person singular simple present shirks, present participle shirking, simple past and past participle shirked)

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

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:shirk

   • 1826, Julius Hare, Guesses at Truth by Two Brothers

     the usual makeshift by which they try to shirk difficulties

2. (intransitive) To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away.
   • September 7, 1830, Lord Byron, letter to Mr. Murray

     One of the cities shirked from the league.

3. (transitive) To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation.
   • 1635, Bishop Rainbow, Sermons

     You that never heard the call of any vocation, […] that shirk living from others, but time from yourselves.

Translations

Noun

shirk (plural shirks)

1. One who shirks, who avoids a duty or responsibility.

   Synonym: dodger

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic ?????? (širk).

Pronunciation

• (non-rhotic) IPA^(key): /???k/

Noun

shirk (uncountable)

1. (Islam) The unforgivable sin of idolatry.
   • 2013, James R. White, What Every Christian Needs to Know About the Qur'an, Baker Books (?ISBN)

     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.

Related terms

• mushrik

Further reading

• shirk (Islam) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Anagrams

• Krish

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Etymology 1

Fusion of Middle English redden (“to deliver from, rid, clear”) (from Old English hreddan (“to deliver, rescue, free from, take away”), from Proto-West Germanic *hraddjan, from Proto-Germanic *hradjan? (“to save, deliver”)) and Middle English ridden (“to clear away, remove obstructions”) (from Old English ?eryddan (“to clear land”), from Proto-Germanic *riudijan? (“to clear”), from Proto-Indo-European *rewd?- (“to clear land”).

Akin to Old Frisian hredda (“to save”), Dutch redden (“to save, deliver”), German retten (“to save, deliver”), roden (“to clear”) and reuten (“to clear”), Old Norse ryðja (“to clear, empty”), Old Norse hr?ðja (“to clear, strip”). More at redd.

Adjective

rid (not comparable) (not used attributively)

1. Released from an obligation, problem, etc. (usually followed by of).

Translations

Verb

rid (third-person singular simple present rids, present participle ridding, simple past rid or ridded, past participle rid or ridded or ridden) (ridden is rare and nonstandard)

1. (transitive) To free (something) from a hindrance or annoyance.

   Synonyms: deliver, disencumber

   • 1170, King Henry II (offhand remark)

     Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?

   • 2014, Jacob Steinberg, "Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals", The Guardian, 9 March 2014:

     All the billions in the world and Manchester City still cannot rid themselves of the most persistent thorn in their side.

2. (transitive, chiefly obsolete) To banish.
   • 2008, John H. Goodwin, The Reluctant Spy (page 293)

     Worst of all were the leeches. The soldiers had managed to rid them from the camp interiors, but once you ventured out on patrol and into the wetlands, they were everywhere.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To kill.

Derived terms

• get rid of

Translations

Etymology 2

Verb

rid

1. (obsolete or nonstandard) simple past tense and past participle of ride
   • 1930, William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, Library of America, 1985, p.67:

     "He would have rid that horse, too," pa says, "if I hadn't a stopped him. A durn spotted critter wilder than a catty-mount. A deliberate flouting of her and me."

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “rid”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• “rid”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• D.R.I., DRI, Dir., IDR, dir, dir.

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ri?d/, [?ið?]

Verb

rid

1. imperative of ride

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

rid

1. imperative of ride

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Verb

rid

1. present tense of ride
2. imperative of ride

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hríð.

Noun

rid f (definite singular rida or ridi, indefinite plural rider, definite plural ridene)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 1938; superseded by ri

Romanian

Etymology

From French ride.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rid/

Noun

rid n (plural riduri)

1. wrinkle, furrow, crease, line (on face)

Declension

Further reading

• rid in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -i?d

Verb

rid

1. imperative of rida.