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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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širāk شِراك , pl. šuruk, ʔašruk, ʔašrāk
 
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n. 
shoelace – WehrCowan1976
 
▪ Perhaps, širāk ‘shoelace’ – and also ↗šarak ‘net, snare, trap’? – go back to the notion of *‘twisting, plaiting’ that is nowhere else preserved in Ar, but well attested in Hbr śārak ‘to twist’ (which, in its turn, may be related to ↗šarika ‘to share, participate’ etc.). Ar širāk seems to have a rather close relative in Hbr śᵊrôk ‘(sandal-) thong’.
 
▪ Hava1899: †šarraka (II) ‘to put leather thongs to sandals’, D-stem, denom. – See also below, section DISC.
 
▪ Klein1987 (et al.): Ar širāk ‘shoelace’, Hbr śᵊrôk ‘(sandal-) thong’, prob. Hbr śārak ‘to twist, plait’.
 
▪ The obsol. vb. I †šarika (a, šarak) ‘to have the strings of the shoes broken’ (Hava1899) does prob. not represent an original value but is most likely denom., either from širāk or, more probably, from ↗šuruk ‘broken, rotten, unsound’ (< Tu çürük), having “fused” with širāk.
 
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For other values attached to the root, cf. ↗šarika, ↗širk, ↗širkaẗ~šarikaẗ, ↗ĭštirākī, ↗ĭštirākiyyaẗ, ↗šarak, ↗šuruk, (EgAr) ↗šurayk.
 
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