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أَشْنَقُ

Root: شنق

Full Definition

أَشْنَقُ Long; applied to a neck. And, as also مَشْنُوقٌ , Long in the head; applied to a horse and to a camel; and so شَنْقَآءُ [the fem. of the former] and شِنَاقٌ applied to the female. For the fem., see also شِنَاقٌ.

def.2 [The fem.] شَنْقَآءُ signifies [also] A female bird that feeds her young ones with her bill, ejecting the food into their mouths.
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