شِيقٌ
Root: شيق
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شِيقٌ
A mountain: or the highest part of a mountain: or a part that is even, and small in breadth, in the face of a mountain, resembling a wall, (فِى
لِهْبِ جَبَلٍ,) that cannot be ascended: or the most difficult place in a mountain. A poet says, cited as using it in the last sense,
2 A long, or tall, mountain; (جَبَلٌ طَوِيلٌ;) thus accord. to some in the verse of Aboo-Dhu-eyb.
3 And accord. to some, it signifies in that verse A narrow cleft in a mountain: or in the head thereof: or a cleft between two rocks.
4 A side; syn. جَانِبٌ. One says, اِمْتَلأَ مِنَ الشِّيقِ إِلَى الشِّيقِ It became filled from side to side.
def.2 The head [or glans] of the penis.
def.3 The hair of a horse's tail: n. un. with ة.
def.4 A species of fish.
2 The aquatic bird [or rather birds] called بُرَك [pl. of بُرْكَةٌ, q. v.]: n. un. with ة. (TA. [In the K, شِيقَةٌ is mentioned in another place as meaning a certain aquatic bird: and in the O as meaning a species of aquatic birds.])
def.5 And accord. to Ibn- 'Abbád, i. q. كِتَابٌ [A writing, or book, &c.].
def.6 See also art. شوق.
[An eagle dwelling between the most difficult place in a mountain and the highest part thereof]. See also a verse of Aboo-Dhu-eyb cited voce خَافَةٌ, in art. خوف.شَغْوَآءُ تَوطِنُ بَيْنَ الشِّيقِ وَالنِّيقِ
2 A long, or tall, mountain; (جَبَلٌ طَوِيلٌ;) thus accord. to some in the verse of Aboo-Dhu-eyb.
3 And accord. to some, it signifies in that verse A narrow cleft in a mountain: or in the head thereof: or a cleft between two rocks.
4 A side; syn. جَانِبٌ. One says, اِمْتَلأَ مِنَ الشِّيقِ إِلَى الشِّيقِ It became filled from side to side.
def.2 The head [or glans] of the penis.
def.3 The hair of a horse's tail: n. un. with ة.
def.4 A species of fish.
2 The aquatic bird [or rather birds] called بُرَك [pl. of بُرْكَةٌ, q. v.]: n. un. with ة. (TA. [In the K, شِيقَةٌ is mentioned in another place as meaning a certain aquatic bird: and in the O as meaning a species of aquatic birds.])
def.5 And accord. to Ibn- 'Abbád, i. q. كِتَابٌ [A writing, or book, &c.].
def.6 See also art. شوق.
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