شنق

Root entry · 20 derived lemmas

The root 'شنق' primarily relates to the concept of stretching, pulling, or hanging something upwards, often associated with the neck or head. It extends to meanings of length, height, and also to specific legal and financial terms concerning livestock and compensation.

Derived headwords

شَنَقَverb

1.
to pull the reins tightlyboth
To pull the reins of a camel or horse upwards, causing its head to be raised and its neck stretched.
2.
to hangboth
To suspend something, often by a rope or cord.
3.
to fix a honeycombclassical
To fix a piece of honeycomb into a hive using a stick, especially when bees are feeding their young.
4.
to be eager forclassical
To desire something intensely, to the point of being fixated.

شنق البعير يشنقه ويشنقه شنقا وأشنقه إذا جذب خطامه وكفه بزمامه وهو راكبه من قبل رأسه حتى يلزق ذفراه بقادمة الرحل — He pulled the camel's reins and restrained it by its bridle while riding it from its head until its nape stuck to the front of the saddle.

شنق الخلية يشنقها شنقا وشنقها: وذلك أن يعمد إلى عود فيبريه ثم يأخذ قرصا من قرصة العسل فيثبت ذلك العود في أسفل القرص ثم يقيمه في عرض الخلية فربما شنق في الخلية القرصين والثلاثة — He fixed the honeycomb in the hive by taking a stick, shaving it, attaching a piece of honeycomb to its lower end, and then setting it upright in the middle of the hive, sometimes fixing two or three pieces.

شنق رأس الدابة: شده إلى أعلى شجرة أو وتد مرتفع حتى يمتد عنقها وينتصب — He stretched the animal's head upwards to a tree or a high stake until its neck was extended and erect.

شنق شنقا وشنق: هوي شيئا فبقي كأنه معلق — He desired something and remained as if suspended.

شنق بها معابل مرهفات — He attached sharp arrows to it.

أَشْنَقَverb

1.
to raise the headboth
To raise one's head, or to cause an animal to raise its head.
2.
to hangboth
To suspend something.
3.
to attach a strapboth
To attach a strap or cord to a waterskin or similar object.

وأشنق البعير بنفسه: رفع رأسه، يتعدى ولا يتعدى — The camel raised its head; it is transitive and intransitive.

إن أشنق لها خرم أي إن بالع في إشناقها خرم أنفها — If she urinates while her nose is raised, her nose is pierced.

فحل شناق القربة — He untied the waterskin's strap.

أشنق القربة إشناقا: جعل لها شناقا وشدها به وعلقها — He attached a strap to the waterskin, tied it, and hung it up.

شَنَقٌnoun

1.
length of the headclassical
The state of having a long head, as if stretched upwards.
2.
a rope for leading camelsclassical
A rope used to pull the head of a camel or she-camel.
3.
a piece of honeycombclassical
A piece of honeycomb fixed in a hive.
4.
lengthclassical
General term for length or tallness.
5.
livestock between fixed quotasclassical
Livestock, particularly camels or sheep, that fall between the quantities for which a fixed tax or due is levied.
6.
less than the full blood-witclassical
Compensation for injuries that is less than the full blood-wit (diya).

الشنق: طول الرأس كأنما يمد صعدا — The shanq: length of the head as if stretched upwards.

والشنق: طول الرأس — And the shanq: length of the head.

والشنق الطول — And the shanq is length.

والشناق والأشناق: ما بين الفريضتين من الإبل والغنم فما زاد على العشر لا يؤخذ منه شيء حتى تتم الفريضة الثانية، واحدها شنق — And the shinaq and al-ashnaq: what is between the two fixed quotas of camels and sheep, and what exceeds ten is not taken until the second quota is complete, its singular is shanq.

والشنق أيضا: ما دون الدية — And the shanq is also: less than the blood-wit.

شَنَقَةnoun

1.
a rope for leading camelsclassical
A rope used to pull the head of a camel or she-camel.

شَنَاقnoun

1.
a rope for leading camelsboth
A rope used to pull the head of a camel or she-camel.
2.
tall personclassical
A tall, lanky person.
3.
strap for a waterskinboth
The strap or cord used to tie the mouth of a waterskin or hang it.
4.
livestock between fixed quotasclassical
Livestock, particularly camels or sheep, that fall between the quantities for which a fixed tax or due is levied.
5.
less than the full blood-witclassical
Compensation for injuries that is less than the full blood-wit (diya).

والشناق حبل يجذب به رأس البعير والناقة — And the shinaq is a rope by which the head of the camel and she-camel is pulled.

وفي الدرع ضخم المنكبين شناق أي طويل — And in the armor, broad-shouldered, a shinaq, meaning tall.

وشناق القربة: علاقتها، وكل خيط علقت به شيئا شناق — And the shinaq of the waterskin: its strap, and every thread by which you hang something is a shinaq.

والشناق أيضا: ما دون الدية — And the shinaq is also: less than the blood-wit.

شَنِيقnoun

1.
a piece of honeycombclassical
A piece of honeycomb fixed in a hive.

واسم ذلك الشيء الشنيق — And the name of that thing is al-shaniq.

مَشْنُوقadjective

1.
long-headedclassical
Having a long head, often referring to a horse or camel.
2.
tallclassical
Tall, long, often used for horses.

وفرس أشنق ومشنوق: طويل الرأس — And a horse ashnaq and mashnuq: long-headed.

كمثل الجذع مشنوق — Like a trunk, long.

أَشْنَقَةnoun

1.
ropes for leading camelsclassical
Plural of shanaq, ropes used to pull the heads of camels.

والجمع أشنقة وشنق — And the plural is ashnqah and shanq.

شَنْقَاءadjective

1.
long-headed (female)classical
Having a long head, referring to a female animal.

والأنثى شنقاء وشناق — And the female is shanqaa' and shinaq.

شَنَقٌnoun

1.
eagernessclassical
Intense desire or longing for something.

وقلب شنق: هيمان — And a heart shanq: infatuated.

قَلْبٌ شَنِقٌnoun phrase

1.
infatuated heartclassical
A heart that is intensely desirous or infatuated with something.

وقلب شنق: هيمان — And a heart shanq: infatuated.

قَلْبٌ شَنِقٌ مِشْنَاقٌnoun phrase

1.
covetous heartclassical
A heart that yearns for everything, covetous.

والقلب الشنق المشناق: الطامح إلى كل شيء — And the shanq mashnaq heart: aspiring to everything.

رَجُلٌ شَنِقٌnoun phrase

1.
anxious manclassical
A man whose heart is suspended, anxious, or fearful.

ورجل شنق: معلق القلب حذر — And a man shanq: suspended of heart, cautious.

أَشْنَاقnoun

1.
straps for waterskinsboth
Plural of shanaq, straps used to tie or hang waterskins.
2.
livestock between fixed quotasclassical
Livestock, particularly camels or sheep, that fall between the quantities for which a fixed tax or due is levied.
3.
less than the full blood-witclassical
Compensation for injuries that is less than the full blood-wit (diya).

وأشناق الدية: ديات جراحات دون التمام — And ashnaq of the blood-wit: compensations for wounds less than the full amount.

والشناق أيضا: ما دون الدية — And the shinaq is also: less than the blood-wit.

شَنَقَverb

1.
to tie the mouth of a waterskinboth
To tie the mouth of a waterskin or waterskin bag.

ويقال: شنق القربة وأشنقها إذا أوكأها وإذا علقها — And it is said: he tied the waterskin and he hung it up, meaning he tied its mouth and hung it.

إِشْنَاقnoun

1.
raising the headboth
The act of raising the head.
2.
attaching a strapboth
The act of attaching a strap to a waterskin or similar object.
3.
hangingclassical
The act of hanging something.
4.
binding the hand to the neckclassical
The act of binding the hand to the neck, as in punishment.

إن بالع في إشناقها خرم أنفها — If she urinates while her nose is raised, her nose is pierced.

وأشنق القربة إشناقا: جعل لها شناقا وشدها به وعلقها — He attached a strap to the waterskin, tied it, and hung it up.

والإشناق أن ترفع يده بالغل إلى عنقه — And al-ishnaq is to raise his hand with the chain to his neck.

شَنَقَverb

1.
to combine livestockclassical
To combine one's livestock with another's to avoid paying the due tax or zakat.

لا يشنق الرجل غنمه وإبله إلى غنم غيره ليبطل عن نفسه ما يجب عليه من الصدقة — A man should not combine his sheep and camels with another's to invalidate the due charity upon himself.

تَشَنَّقَverb

1.
to be combinedclassical
To be combined with another's property to avoid a due.

ولا تشانقوا فتجمعوا بين متفرق — And do not combine, gathering what is separate.

شَنَاقٌnoun

1.
a measure of livestockclassical
A quantity of livestock between the fixed quotas for zakat.

فالشاة شنق والشاتان شنق والثلاث شياه شنق والأربع شياه شنق وما فوق ذلك فهو فريضة — So one sheep is a shanq, two sheep are a shanq, three sheep are a shanq, four sheep are a shanq, and what is above that is a fixed quota.

شَنَقٌnoun

1.
a measure of livestockclassical
A quantity of livestock between the fixed quotas for zakat.

والشنق ما لم تجب فيه الفريضة؛ يريد ما بين خمس إلى خمس وعشرين — And the shanq is what the fixed quota has not become obligatory for; meaning what is between five and twenty-five.

Parallel reading

الشنق: طول الرأس كأنما يمد صعدا

The shanq: length of the head as if stretched upwards.

وأنشد: كأنها كبداء تنزو في الشنق

And he recited: As if she were a camel with a large hump, leaping in the shanq.

شنق البعير يشنقه ويشنقه شنقا وأشنقه إذا جذب خطامه وكفه بزمامه وهو راكبه من قبل رأسه حتى يلزق ذفراه بقادمة الرحل

He pulled the camel's reins and restrained it by its bridle while riding it from its head until its nape stuck to the front of the saddle.

وقيل: شنقه إذا مده بالزمام حتى يرفع رأسه

And it was said: he pulled its reins until it raised its head.

وأشنق البعير بنفسه: رفع رأسه، يتعدى ولا يتعدى

And the camel raised its head by itself: it is transitive and intransitive.

قال ابن جني: شنق البعير وأشنق هو جاءت فيه القضية معكوسة مخالفة للعادة

Ibn Jinni said: shanqa the camel and ashnaqa it, the case came reversed, contrary to the usual.

وأنشد طلحة قصيدة فما زال شانقا راحلته حتى كتبت له

And Talha recited a poem, and he kept pulling his mount's reins until I wrote for him.

إن أشنق لها خرم أي إن بالع في إشناقها خرم أنفها

If she urinates while her nose is raised, her nose is pierced.

فكان رسول الله، صلى الله عليه وسلم، أول طالع فأشرع ناقته فشربت وشنق لها

And the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, was the first to arrive, so he lowered his she-camel's head so she drank, and he pulled her reins.

سأله رجل محرم فقال عنت لي عكرشة فشنقتها بجبوبة أي رميتها حتى كفت عن العدو

A man in the state of ihram asked him, and he said: A wild animal appeared to me, so I threw it until it stopped running.

والشناق حبل يجذب به رأس البعير والناقة

And the shinaq is a rope by which the head of the camel and she-camel is pulled.

وشنق الخلية يشنقها شنقا وشنقها: وذلك أن يعمد إلى عود فيبريه ثم يأخذ قرصا من قرصة العسل فيثبت ذلك العود في أسفل القرص ثم يقيمه في عرض الخلية فربما شنق في الخلية القرصين والثلاثة

He fixed the honeycomb in the hive by taking a stick, shaving it, attaching a piece of honeycomb to its lower end, and then setting it upright in the middle of the hive, sometimes fixing two or three pieces.

واسم ذلك الشيء الشنيق

And the name of that thing is al-shaniq.

وشنق رأس الدابة: شده إلى أعلى شجرة أو وتد مرتفع حتى يمتد عنقها وينتصب

He stretched the animal's head upwards to a tree or a high stake until its neck was extended and erect.

وفي حديث الحجاج ويزيد بن المهلب: وفي الدرع ضخم المنكبين شناق أي طويل

And in the hadith of Al-Hajjaj and Yazid bin Al-Muhallab: And in the armor, broad-shouldered, a shinaq, meaning tall.

والشنق الجيد من الأوتار وهو السمهري الطويل

And the shanq is the good type of bowstring, which is the long samhari wood.

وفرس أشنق ومشنوق: طويل الرأس

And a horse ashnaq and mashnuq: long-headed.

ناقة شناق أي طويلة سطعاء، وجمل شناق طويل في دقة

A shinaq she-camel, meaning tall and broad; and a shinaq camel, tall and slender.

ورجل شناق وامرأة شناق، لا يثنى ولا يجمع

And a shinaq man and a shinaq woman, it is not dualized or pluralized.

شنق شنقا وشنق: هوي شيئا فبقي كأنه معلق

He desired something and remained as if suspended.

وقلب شنق: هيمان

And a heart shanq: infatuated.

والقلب الشنق المشناق: الطامح إلى كل شيء

And the shanq mashnaq heart: aspiring to everything.

ورجل شنق: معلق القلب حذر

And a man shanq: suspended of heart, cautious.

وشناق القربة: علاقتها، وكل خيط علقت به شيئا شناق

And the shinaq of the waterskin: its strap, and every thread by which you hang something is a shinaq.

وأشنق القربة إشناقا: جعل لها شناقا وشدها به وعلقها، وهو خيط يشد به فم القربة

He attached a strap to the waterskin, tied it, and hung it up, and it is a cord by which the mouth of the waterskin is tied.

فحل شناق القربة

He untied the waterskin's strap.

قال أبو عبيدة: شناق القربة هو الخيط والسير الذي تعلق به القربة على الوتد

Abu Ubaidah said: The shinaq of the waterskin is the cord and strap by which the waterskin is hung on the peg.

والشناق: أن تغل اليد إلى العنق

And the shinaq: to bind the hand to the neck.

وإشناقها إلى الأعناق

And their being bound to their necks.

وقال ابن الأعرابي: الإشناق أن ترفع يده بالغل إلى عنقه

And Ibn Al-A'rabi said: Al-ishnaq is to raise his hand with the chain to his neck.

أشنقت الشيء وشنقته إذا علقته

I hung the thing and he hung it, if you suspended it.

شنقت بها معابل مرهفات، مسالات الأغرة كالقراط

He attached sharp arrows to it, piercing the prey like a torch.

شنقت جعلت الوتر في النبل

He attached the string to the arrow.

والشناق والأشناق: ما بين الفريضتين من الإبل والغنم فما زاد على العشر لا يؤخذ منه شيء حتى تتم الفريضة الثانية، واحدها شنق

And the shinaq and al-ashnaq: what is between the two fixed quotas of camels and sheep, and what exceeds ten is not taken until the second quota is complete, its singular is shanq.

لا شناق أي لا يؤخذ من الشنق حتى يتم

No shanq, meaning nothing is taken from the shanq until it is complete.

والشناق أيضا: ما دون الدية

And the shinaq is also: less than the blood-wit.

والشنق أن تزيد الإبل على المائة خمسا أو ستا في الحمالة

And the shanq is to add five or six camels to the hundred in the compensation.

وأشناق الدية: ديات جراحات دون التمام

And ashnaq of the blood-wit: compensations for wounds less than the full amount.

والشنق في الصدقة: ما بين الفريضتين

And the shanq in charity: what is between the two fixed quotas.

والشنق أيضا: ما دون الدية، وذلك أن يسوق ذو الحمالة مائة من الإبل وهي الدية كاملة، فإذا كانت معها ديات جراحات لا تبلغ الدية فتلك هي الأشناق كأنها متعلقة بالدية العظمى

And the shanq is also: less than the blood-wit, which is when the one responsible for compensation brings one hundred camels, which is the full blood-wit, and if there are compensations for wounds with it that do not reach the blood-wit, then those are the ashnaq, as if they are attached to the major blood-wit.

بأشناق الديات إلى الكمول

With the ashnaq of the blood-wits until completion.

والشناق ما بين الفريضتين

And the shinaq is what is between the two fixed quotas.

أشناق الديات: اختلاف أجناسها نحو بنات المخاض وبنات اللبون والحقاق والجذاع، كل جنس منها شنق

Ashnaq of the blood-wits: their different types, such as bint makhad, bint labun, huqqah, and jadh'ah, each type is a shanq.

والشنق ما لم تجب فيه الفريضة؛ يريد ما بين خمس إلى خمس وعشرين

And the shanq is what the fixed quota has not become obligatory for; meaning what is between five and twenty-five.