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مشق

Root entry · 19 derived lemmas

The root مشق (mashq) primarily relates to friction, rubbing, or chafing that causes discomfort or damage. It extends to concepts of tearing, stretching, and even intense eating or consuming.

Derived headwords

المَشَقَّةnoun
  1. 1.
    difficulty, hardshipboth

    A state of difficulty or hardship, particularly related to physical discomfort or strain.

  2. 2.
    chafing, frictionboth

    The act or result of friction or chafing, especially between body parts or against an object.

مَشَقَverb
  1. 1.
    to chafe, rubboth

    To rub or chafe, causing irritation or damage, especially between body parts.

  2. 2.
    to tear, ripboth

    To tear or rip something, like fabric.

  3. 3.
    to eat intenselyclassical

    To eat with great intensity or greed, consuming a portion forcefully.

  4. 4.
    to eat sparinglyclassical

    To take a small amount of food.

مَشِقَverb
  1. 1.
    to chafe (legs)classical

    To have legs that rub against each other, causing discomfort.

  2. 2.
    to chafe (thighs)classical

    To have the inner thighs rub against each other.

مَشْقٌnoun
  1. 1.
    chafing, frictionboth

    The condition of chafing or friction, especially between body parts.

  2. 2.
    burning, abrasionclassical

    A burning or abrasion caused by rough material, like coarse cloth.

  3. 3.
    tearingclassical

    The act of tearing or ripping.

  4. 4.
    intense eatingclassical

    The act of eating with great force or intensity.

  5. 5.
    stretchingclassical

    The act of pulling something to make it longer or thinner.

مَشِقٌadjective
  1. 1.
    chafedclassical

    Describing someone whose buttocks rub together, causing discomfort.

أَمْشَقadjective
  1. 1.
    chafedclassical

    Describing a man with chafing buttocks.

مِشْقَاءadjective
  1. 1.
    chafedclassical

    Describing a woman with chafing buttocks.

المَشْقnoun
  1. 1.
    chafingclassical

    The condition where one knee strikes the other.

  2. 2.
    chafingclassical

    The condition where one calf muscle strikes the other.

  3. 3.
    abrasionclassical

    An abrasion on the skin caused by rough fabric.

  4. 4.
    tearingclassical

    The act of tearing or ripping.

  5. 5.
    intense eatingclassical

    The act of eating with great force or intensity.

  6. 6.
    stretchingclassical

    The act of pulling something to make it longer or thinner.

تَمَشَّقَverb
  1. 1.
    to be tornclassical

    To become torn or ripped.

  2. 2.
    to pass, elapseclassical

    To pass or elapse, referring to time like the night.

  3. 3.
    to appear, dawnclassical

    To appear or dawn, referring to the early signs of morning.

  4. 4.
    to pull and eatclassical

    To pull and eat something, often meat, in a tugging manner.

  5. 5.
    to contend, vieclassical

    To contend with or vie with others, often in a verbal or argumentative sense.

تَمَاشُقnoun
  1. 1.
    tearingclassical

    The act of tearing or ripping.

  2. 2.
    pulling and eatingclassical

    The act of pulling and eating, especially meat.

  3. 3.
    contention, vyingclassical

    The act of contending or vying with others.

مَشَّقَverb
  1. 1.
    to burn, abradeclassical

    To burn or abrade, especially skin, with a rough material.

مَشَّاقnoun
  1. 1.
    best part of the heel boneclassical

    The finest part of the heel bone after it has been cleaned and prepared.

مَشِيقadjective
  1. 1.
    lean, slenderboth

    Describing someone or something as lean, with little flesh.

  2. 2.
    gauntclassical

    Describing a horse as lean and gaunt.

مَمْشُوقadjective
  1. 1.
    lean, slenderboth

    Describing someone or something as lean, with little flesh.

  2. 2.
    slender, well-proportionedclassical

    Describing a young woman as having a good, slender build.

  3. 3.
    gauntclassical

    Describing a horse as lean and gaunt.

مَشَّقَverb
  1. 1.
    to stretch, extendclassical

    To stretch or extend something, like a bowstring.

  2. 2.
    to soften by stretchingclassical

    To soften something by stretching or pulling, like a rope or string.

وَتَرٌ مَمْشُوقadjective phrase
  1. 1.
    stretched bowstringclassical

    A bowstring that has been stretched and is ready for use.

وَتَرٌ مَمْشُوقٌadjective phrase
  1. 1.
    stretched bowstringclassical

    A bowstring that has been stretched and is ready for use.

اِمْتَشَقَverb
  1. 1.
    to stretch, extendclassical

    To stretch or extend, referring to a bowstring becoming taut.

  2. 2.
    to peel off, shedclassical

    To peel off or shed, referring to the outer layers of a bowstring.

شَرْعَةnoun
  1. 1.
    least and strongest bowstringclassical

    The smallest and strongest type of bowstring, requiring significant tension.

Parallel reading

المشقة في ذوات الحافر: تفحج في القوائم وتشحج.
Chafing in quadrupeds: splaying of the legs and rubbing.
ومشق الرجل يمشق مشقا، فهو مشق إذا اصطكت أليتاه حتى تشحجتا، وكذلك باطنا الفخذين.
And a man chafes, he chafes with chafing, so he is chafed if his buttocks rub together until they chafe, and likewise the insides of the thighs.
إذا كانت إحدى ركبتيه تصيب الأخرى فهو المشق؛ وهذا قول أبي زيد حكاه عنه أبو عبيد.
If one of his knees strikes the other, that is the chafing; and this is the saying of Abu Zayd, narrated by Abu Ubayd.
مشق الرجل، بالكسر، إذا أصابت إحدى ربلتيه الأخرى.
A man chafes, with a kasra, if one of his calf muscles strikes the other.
المشق في ظاهر الساق وباطنها احتراق يصبيها من الثوب إذا كان خشنا.
Chafing on the outside and inside of the leg is a burning that afflicts it from rough clothing.
ومشقها الثوب يمشقها: أحرقها، والاسم من جميع ذلك المشقة؛
And the cloth chafed it, it chafed it: it burned it, and the noun for all of that is 'al-mashaqqah'.
تفري السباع سلى عنه تماشقه، ... كأنه برد عصب فيه تضريج
The predators tear away from it its tearing, ... as if it were a striped embroidered cloth.
تماشقه تمزقه.
Its tearing means its ripping.
ومشق الثوب: مزقه.
And to tear cloth: to rip it.
وتمشق جلباب الليل إذا ظهرت تعباشير الصبح؛
And the cloak of night tears away when the first signs of dawn appear.
والمشق: شدة الأكل يأخذ النحضة فيمشقها بفيه مشقا جذبا.
And intense eating: eating with great force, taking a piece of meat and tearing it with his mouth forcefully by pulling.
ومشق من الطعام يمشق مشقا: تناول منه شيئا قليلا.
And he takes a little from the food, he takes a little with a little: he takes a small amount from it.
ومشقت الإبل في الكلإ تمشق مشقا: أكلت أطايبه.
And the camels grazed on the fodder, they grazed intensely: they ate its choicest parts.
وتماشق القوم اللحم إذا تجاذبوه فأكلوه؛
And the people tugged at the meat if they pulled it and ate it.
تماشق البادين والحضارا، ... لم تعرف الوقف ولا السوارا
They tugged at the desert dwellers and the townspeople, ... she knew neither stopping nor restraint.
ورجل مشيق وممشوق: خفيف اللحم، ورجل مشق في هذا المعنى؛
And a man is 'mashiq' and 'mamshuq': lean of flesh, and a man is 'mashq' in this meaning.
وفرس مشيق وممشوق أي ضامر.
And a horse is 'mashiq' and 'mamshuq', meaning lean.
يقال فرس مشيق ممشق [ممشق] ممشوق أي فيه طول وقلة لحم.
It is said a horse is 'mashiq', 'mashiq', 'mamshuq', 'mamshuq', meaning it has length and little flesh.
وجارية ممشوقة: حسنة القوام قليلة اللحم.
And a young woman is 'mamshuqah': well-proportioned and lean.
ومشق القدح مشقا: حمل عليه في البري ليدق.
And to sharpen a cup with sharpening: to press upon it in the grinding to make it thin.
والمشق: جذب الشيء ليمتد ويطول، والسير يمشق حتى يلين، والوتر يمشق حتى يلين ويجوف، كما يمشق الخياط خيطه بحرنقه
And stretching: pulling a thing to make it extend and lengthen, and a rope stretches until it softens, and a bowstring stretches until it softens and hollows, just as a tailor stretches his thread with his needle.
ومشق الوتر: جذبه ليمتد.
And to stretch the bowstring: to pull it to extend.
وامتشق الوتر: امتد وذهب ما انقشر من لحمه وعصبه.
And the bowstring stretched: it extended and what had peeled off from its flesh and sinew went away.
الشرعة أقل الأوتار وأشدها مشقا.
The 'shar'ah' is the least of bowstrings and the most difficult to stretch.
وذلك أن العقب يؤخذ من المتن ويخالطه اللحم فييبس ثم ينسط حتى لا يبقى فيه إلا مشاق العقب وقلبه وقد هذبوه من أسقاطه كلها.
And that is when the heel bone is taken from the spine and mixed with flesh, and it dries, then it is smoothed until nothing remains in it but the best part of the heel bone and its core, and they have refined it from all its impurities.
ومشاق العقب: أجوده،
And the best part of the heel bone: its finest part.