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▪ spurious, unsound, phony, false – WehrCowan1976
▪ unfit, unsound (particularly with respect to military service)’ – BadawiHinds1986
▪ from Tu çürük ‘rotten’ – Hava1899, BadawiHinds1986, Rolland2014. – Attestation in Hava1899 suggests that the word was in use (in the Levant) mostly in connection with false money, as opposed to ‘sound’ (ṣāġ < Tu sağ) coins. Usage in modEgAr covers ‘unfitness’ with regard to military service, but also ‘counterfeit’ money and ‘unsound’ cars.
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▪ Hava1899: SyrAr †šuruk ‘of a bad (opp. to ṣāġ) standard, deficient (coin)’
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▪ 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. back-formation, either from šuruk or from ↗širāk ‘shoelace, leather thongs’.
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(all examples of usage in modEgAr, accord. to BadawiHinds1986):
►EgAr ʕarabiyyaẗ šuruk, unsound car;
►EgAr filūs šuruk, counterfeit money; ►EgAr šarrak, vb. II, 1 to render unsound or useless; 2 to reject as medically unfit for military service: D-stem, caus./declarative For other values attached to the root, cf. ↗šarika, ↗širk, ↗širkaẗ~šarikaẗ, ↗ĭštirākī, ↗ĭštirākiyyaẗ, ↗šarak, ↗širāk, (EgAr) ↗šurayk.
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