شريك

فَعِيل (faʕīl)-type stative-verb derived from the active participle from the verb شَرِكَ‎ (šarika, “to share”), from the root ش ر ك‎ (š-r-k); literally, "sharer".

• IPA^(key): /ʃa.riːk/

شَرِيك • (šarīk) m (plural شُرَكَاء‎ (šurakāʔ), feminine شَرِيكَة‎ (šarīka))

1. (countable) a sharer
   1. a sharer in wealth, profit, or ownership; a business partner
   2. a sharer in inheritance; a coheir
      • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 4:12:

        ‏فَإِن كَانُوا أَكْثَرَ مِن ذَٰلِكَ فَهُمْ شُرَكَاءُ فِي ٱلثُّلُثِ‎

        faʔin kānū ʔakṯara min ḏālika fahum šurakāʔu fī ṯ-ṯuluṯi

        If they are more than that, they are the co-heirs of the third [of the inheritance].

   3. a sharer in rank, authority, or lordship; a coordinate; an equal; a co-ruler
   4. an associate, a partner, a fellow; a companion
2. a fellow deity, someone presumed a god other than the monotheistic God
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 10:35:

     ‏قُلْ هَلْ مِن شُرَكَائِكُم مَّن يَهْدِي إِلَى الْحَقِّ‎

     qul hal min šurakāʔikum mman yahdī ʔilā l-ḥaqqi

     Say: Is there of your partner-deities one that leads to the right?

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 35:40:

     ‏قُلْ أَرَأَيْتُمْ شُرَكَاءَكُمُ الَّذِينَ تَدْعُونَ مِن دُونِ اللَّهِ أَرُونِي مَاذَا خَلَقُوا مِنَ الْأَرْضِ أَمْ لَهُمْ شِرْكٌ فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ أَمْ آتَيْنَاهُمْ كِتَابًا فَهُمْ عَلَىٰ بَيِّنَتٍ مِّنْهُ‎

     qul ʔaraʔaytum šurakāʔakumu allaḏīna tadʕūna min dūni l-lahi ʔarūnī māḏā ḵalaqū mina l-ʔarḍi ʔam lahum širkun fī s-samāwāti ʔam ʔātaynāhum kitāban fahum ʕalā bayyinatin mminhu

     Say: Have ye seen your partner-gods to whom ye pray beside Allah? Show me what they created of the earth! Or have they any share in the heavens? Or have We given them a scripture so they act on unequivocal proof therefrom?

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “شريك”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen