Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

شِقْتُ الطُّنُبَ إِلَى الوَتِدِ, (Ṣ,) inf. n. شَيْقٌ, (TA,) is like نُطْتُهُ. (Ṣ.) [See 1 (last sentence but one) in art. شوق.]

شِيقٌ A mountain: (IAạr, Ṣ:) or the highest part of a mountain: (Skr, O, Ḳ:) or a part that is even, (Lth, O, Ḳ,) and small in breadth, in the face of a mountain, resembling a wall, (فِى لِهْبِ جَبَلٍ,) (Lth, O,) that cannot be ascended: (Lth, O, Ḳ:*) or the most difficult place in a mountain. (Ṣ, O, Ḳ.) A poet says, cited as using it in the last sense,

* شَغْوَآءُ تَوطِنُ بَيْنَ الشِّيقِ وَالنِّيقِ *

[An eagle dwelling between the most difficult place in a mountain and the highest part thereof]. (Ṣ, O.) See also a verse of Aboo-Dhu-eyb cited voce خَافَةٌ, in art. خوف.

A long, or tall, mountain; (جَبَلٌ طَوِيلٌ;) (Ḳ;) thus accord. to some in the verse of Aboo-Dhu-eyb. (TA.)

And accord. to some, it signifies in that verse (TA) A narrow cleft in a mountain: or in the head thereof: or a cleft between two rocks. (Ḳ, TA.)

A side; syn. جَانِبٌ. (Skr, O, Ḳ.) One says, اِمْتَلأَ مِنَ الشِّيقِ إِلَى الشِّيقِ It became filled from side to side. (TA.)

The head [or glans] of the penis. (IAạr, O, Ḳ.)

The hair of a horse's tail: n. un. with ة {شِيقَةٌ}. (IAạr, O, Ḳ.)

A species of fish. (IAạr, O, Ḳ.)

The aquatic bird [or rather birds] called بُرَك [pl. of بُرْكَةٌ, q. v.]: (Ḳ:) n. un. with ة {شِيقَةٌ}. (TA. [In the Ḳ, شِيقَةٌ is mentioned in another place as meaning a certain aquatic bird: and in the O as meaning a species of aquatic birds.])

And accord. to Ibn-ʼAbbád, i. q. كِتَابٌ [A writing, or book,, &c.]. (O.)

See also art. شوق.