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شَارِقٌ

Root: شرق

Full Definition

شَارِقٌ : see شَرْقٌ, in two places.
2 Also The side that is next the east; the eastern side; of a hill, and of a mountain: you say, هٰذَا شَارِقُ الجَبَلِ and [This is the eastern side of the mountain], and هذا غَارِبُ الجَبَلِ and غَرْبِيُّهُ [in the opposite sense]: pl. شُرْقٌ. Hence, in a trad., as some relate it, الشُّرْقُ الجُونُ [meaning Trials, or conflicts and factions, like portions of the dark night, rising from the direction of the east]: but it is otherwise related, with ف [in the place of the ق: see شَارِفٌ].
3 And الشَّارِقُ is the name of A certain idol, of the Time of Ignorance; whence عَبْدُ الشَّارِقِ, a proper name [of a man].

def.2 Also [if not a mistranscription for شَارُوقٌ, q. v., app. Clay, or some other substance or mixture, with which a place is plastered,] مَا يُطَيَّنُ بِهِ مَكَانٌ.
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