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شرنق

Root entry · 3 derived lemmas

This root appears to relate to shedding or peeling, specifically referring to snake skins. It also includes a bird name that seems unrelated to the primary meaning.

Derived headwords

شَرَانِقnoun
  1. 1.
    tattered clothesclassical

    Tattered or torn clothes, for which no singular form is known.

  2. 2.
    snake skinclassical

    The shed skin of a snake after it has been cast off.

شِرْقِرَاقnoun
  1. 1.
    hoopoe-like birdclassical

    A bird found in the Haram region, near palm groves, approximately the size of a hoopoe, with markings of red, green, white, and black.

شَقْرَاقnoun
  1. 1.
    hoopoe-like birdclassical

    A bird found in the Haram region, near palm groves, approximately the size of a hoopoe, with markings of red, green, white, and black.

Parallel reading

ثياب شرانق متخرقة لا واحد لها
Tattered clothes, for which there is no singular.
منه وأعلى جلده شرانق
From him and on his skin are tattered garments.
ويقال لسلخ الحية إذا ألقته شرانق
And the shed skin of a snake, when it casts it off, is called sharanq.
الشقراق والشقراق والشرقراق والشرقراق، لغتان: طائر يكون في أرض الحرم في منابت النخيل كقدر الهدهد مرقط بحمرة وخضرة وبياض وسواد.
Al-shuqraaq and al-shuqraaq and al-sharqaraaq and al-sharqaraaq are two linguistic variants: a bird found in the Haram region, in the palm groves, about the size of a hoopoe, speckled with redness, greenness, whiteness, and blackness.