Shirk may refer to: *

Shirk (surname) Shirk is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Amos Urban Shirk (c. 1890 – 1956), American businessman * Bill Shirk (born 1945), American escape artist * Dave Shirk, visual effects supervisor * Eugene Shirk (1901–1994), American ...

Shirk (Islam) ''Shirk'' () in Islam is a sin often roughly translated as 'idolatry' or ' polytheism', but more accurately meaning 'association God]'. It refers to accepting other Divinity, divinities or powers alongside God as associates. In contrast, Islam te ...

, in Islam, the sin of idolatry or worshiping beings or things other than God ('attributing an associate (to God)') *

Shirk, Iran Shirk (, also Romanized as Shīrk; also known as Shīrag and Shīrg) is a village in Fakhrud Rural District, Qohestan District, Darmian County, South Khorasan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and als ...

, a village in South Khorasan Province, Iran *

Shirk-e Sorjeh Shirk-e Sorjeh () is a village in Zohan Rural District of Zohan District, Zirkuh County, South Khorasan province, Iran. It is located along the Qohestan–Zohan road, by road northeast of Birjand. Demographics Population At the time of th ...

, a village in South Khorasan Province, Iran * "Shirk break", a synonym for

coffee break A break at work (or work-break) is a period of time during a shift in which an employee is allowed to take time off from their job. It is a type of downtime. There are different types of breaks, and depending on the length and the employer's p ...

* Shirking model, part of the economic principle of the

efficiency wage In labor economics, an efficiency wage is a wage paid in excess of the market-clearing wage to increase the labor productivity of workers.Mankiw, Gregory N. & Taylor, Mark P. (2008), ''Macroeconomics'' (European edition), pp. 181–182 Specifica ...

* USS ''Shirk'' (DD-318), a United States Navy destroyer in service 1921 to 1930

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