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المشق

Root entry · 28 derived lemmas

The root المشق primarily relates to actions involving stretching, pulling, tearing, and swiftness, often with a connotation of delicacy or thinness. It extends to concepts of speed in actions like striking, eating, and writing, as well as physical attributes of slenderness and leanness.

Derived headwords

مَشَقَverb
  1. 1.
    to be swiftboth

    To be quick and agile, particularly in actions like striking, stabbing, or eating.

  2. 2.
    to stretchboth

    To draw something out to make it longer or thinner, like stretching a bowstring.

  3. 3.
    to tearboth

    To rip or tear a garment.

  4. 4.
    to eat weaklyclassical

    To eat with little appetite or in a weak manner.

  5. 5.
    to milk littleclassical

    To extract a small amount of milk from an animal.

المَشْقnoun
  1. 1.
    swiftnessboth

    Speed and agility in actions such as striking, stabbing, eating, or writing.

  2. 2.
    stretchingboth

    The act of drawing something out to extend it, like a bowstring.

  3. 3.
    writing elongationboth

    The elongation or stretching of letters in writing.

  4. 4.
    type of intercourseclassical

    A specific manner of sexual intercourse.

  5. 5.
    combingboth

    The act of combing hair or fibers.

  6. 6.
    weak eatingclassical

    Eating with little appetite or in a feeble manner.

  7. 7.
    scant milkingclassical

    The act of milking an animal and obtaining little milk.

  8. 8.
    thinness with lengthboth

    A quality of being long and slender.

  9. 9.
    ochreboth

    A natural clay earth pigment, typically reddish-brown.

  10. 10.
    dyed with ochreclassical

    Something colored or dyed with ochre.

مَشَقَتْverb
  1. 1.
    to be stretchedclassical

    Said of a young girl, implying she has become long and slender.

بَهَاءَverb
  1. 1.
    to show rope marksclassical

    To exhibit the marks left by a rope on an animal's leg.

  2. 2.
    to splay legsclassical

    Said of a hoofed animal whose legs spread apart unnaturally.

  3. 3.
    to be hoarseclassical

    To have a hoarse voice.

المَشَاقَةnoun
  1. 1.
    combed-off fibersboth

    The fibers or lint that fall off when combing hair or flax.

  2. 2.
    flying debrisclassical

    Particles or debris that fly off during combing or processing.

  3. 3.
    separated materialclassical

    Material that has been separated or extracted, like lint.

امْتَشَقَهُverb
  1. 1.
    to snatchboth

    To seize or take something quickly and stealthily.

  2. 2.
    to cut offboth

    To sever or cut off a part of something.

  3. 3.
    to milk out completelyboth

    To extract all the milk from an udder.

مَشِقadjective
  1. 1.
    leanboth

    Describing a man who is lean and has little flesh.

مَشِيقadjective
  1. 1.
    leanboth

    Describing a man who is lean and has little flesh.

مَمْشُوقadjective
  1. 1.
    leanboth

    Describing a man who is lean and has little flesh.

  2. 2.
    slenderboth

    Describing a woman with a well-proportioned and graceful figure.

  3. 3.
    slenderboth

    Describing a branch or object that is long and thin.

مَشَقَتِ الإِبِلُ الكَلأَverb
  1. 1.
    camels ate choice herbageclassical

    Camels consumed the best and most tender parts of the pasture.

مَشَقَ الطَّعَامَverb
  1. 1.
    left more food than eatenclassical

    To consume only a portion of the food, leaving a larger amount.

مَشَقَ الثَّوْبَverb
  1. 1.
    new garment chafedclassical

    A new garment caused abrasion or burning sensation.

المَشَقَّةnoun
  1. 1.
    chafingclassical

    The burning or abrasive sensation caused by friction, especially from a new garment.

  2. 2.
    difficultyboth

    Hardship or difficulty encountered.

الأَمْشَقadjective
  1. 1.
    cracked skinclassical

    Describing skin that is split or cracked.

مَشِقَverb
  1. 1.
    one calf hit the otherclassical

    Said of a person whose calf muscle struck its counterpart.

أَمْشَقadjective
  1. 1.
    having calves that hitclassical

    Describing a person whose calf muscles strike each other.

مِشْقَاءadjective
  1. 1.
    having calves that hitclassical

    Describing a female whose calf muscles strike each other.

المَشْقَةnoun
  1. 1.
    calf strikingclassical

    The condition where one calf strikes the other.

المِصْقnoun
  1. 1.
    ochreboth

    A natural clay earth pigment, typically reddish-brown.

المَمْصُوقadjective
  1. 1.
    wornclassical

    Describing garments that have been worn.

  2. 2.
    leanclassical

    Describing horses that are lean or gaunt.

تَمَشَّقَ اللَّيْلُverb
  1. 1.
    night passedclassical

    The night elapsed or went by.

تَمَشَّقَ جِلْبَابُ اللَّيْلِverb
  1. 1.
    dawn appearedclassical

    The first signs of morning light became visible.

تَمَشَّقَ الغُصْنُverb
  1. 1.
    branch peeledclassical

    A branch shed its bark or outer layer.

تَمَشَّقَ ثَوْبَهُverb
  1. 1.
    his garment toreclassical

    His clothing became ripped or torn.

تَمَاشَقُوا اللَّحْمَverb
  1. 1.
    they pulled the meatclassical

    They engaged in a tug-of-war over the meat.

المُمَاشَقَةnoun
  1. 1.
    tug-of-warclassical

    The act of pulling or dragging something back and forth.

  2. 2.
    insultingclassical

    The act of exchanging insults or abusive language.

  3. 3.
    quarrelingclassical

    Engaging in loud arguments or disputes.

المَشَقَّةnoun
  1. 1.
    combed-off fibersclassical

    The material that falls off during combing, similar to المشاقة.

  2. 2.
    worn-out garmentclassical

    An old or tattered piece of clothing.

  3. 3.
    piece of cottonclassical

    A fragment or piece of raw cotton.

أَمْشَقَهُverb
  1. 1.
    to whipclassical

    To strike someone with a whip.

Parallel reading

المشق: سرعة في الطعن والضرب، أو بالسوط والأكل، و في الكتابة: مد حروفها، وضرب من النكاح، والمشط، وجذب الشيء ليمتد، ومزق الثوب، والأكل الضعيف، كأنه ضد، وقلة الحلب، ومد الوتر ليلين، والطول مع الرقة، وقد مشقت الجارية، كعني، وبهاء: أثر الحبل برجل الدابة، وتفحج في قوائم ذوات الحافر، وتشحج.
Al-mashq: swiftness in stabbing and striking, or with a whip and eating, and in writing: stretching its letters, and a type of intercourse, and combing, and pulling a thing to make it extend, and tearing a garment, and weak eating, as if it were its opposite, and scant milking, and stretching the bowstring to soften it, and length with thinness, and a girl may become mashqat (stretched/slender), as in 'ani, and bahā': the mark of a rope on an animal's leg, and splaying in the limbs of hoofed animals, and hoarseness.
والمشاقة، كثمامة: ما سقط من الشعر أو الكتان عند المشط، أو ما طار، أو ما خلص.
And al-mushāqah, like thumāmah: what falls from hair or flax when combing, or what flies off, or what is separated.
وامتشقه: اختلسه، و الشيء: اقتطعه، و ما في الضرع: استوفاه حلبا.
And imtashaqahu: he snatched it, and al-shay': he cut it off, and mā fī al-ḍir‘: he milked it out completely.
ورجل مشق، بالكسر، ومشيق وممشوق: خفيف اللحم.
And a man mashq, with kasr, and mashīq and mamshūq: lean-fleshed.
ومشقت الإبل الكلأ، كنصر: أكلت أطايبه، و الطعام: أبقى منه أكثر مما أكل، و الثوب الجديد الساق: وهو احتراق يصيبها منه، والاسم: المشقة، بالضم.
And the camels mashaqat al-kala', like naṣara: they ate its choicest parts, and al-ṭa‘ām: he left more of it than he ate, and al-thawb al-jadīd al-sāq: it is a burning that affects it from it, and the noun is al-mashaqqah, with ḍamm.
والأمشق: الجلد المتشقق، ج: مشق، بالضم.
And al-amshaq: the cracked skin, pl.: mushūq, with ḍamm.
ومشق، كفرح: أصابت إحدى ربلتيه الأخرى، فهو أمشق، ج: مشق، وهي مشقاء، والاسم: المشقة، بالضم.
And mashuqa, like fariḥa: one of his calves struck the other, so he is amshaq, pl.: mushūq, and she is mashqā’, and the noun is al-mashaqqah, with ḍamm.
والمشق، بالكسر والفتح: المغرة.
And al-mashq, with kasr and fatḥ: ochre.
وكمعظم: المصبوغ به.
And ka-mu‘aẓẓam: that which is dyed with it.
وكأمير من الثياب: اللبيس، و من الخيل: الضامر، كالممشوق.
And ka-amīr from garments: the worn, and from horses: the lean, like al-mamshūq.
وجارية ممشوقة: حسنة القوام.
And a girl mamshūqah: of good stature.
وقضيب ممشوق: طويل دقيق.
And a branch mamshūq: long and slender.
وتمشق الليل: ولى، و جلباب الليل: ظهر تباشير الصبح، و الغصن: تقشر وتحسر، و ثوبه: تمزق.
And the night tamashshaqa: passed, and the cloak of night: the first signs of dawn appeared, and the branch: peeled and became bare, and his garment: tore.
وتماشقوا اللحم: تجاذبوه.
And they tamāshaqū al-laḥm: they pulled it towards each other.
والمماشقة: المجاذبة، والمسابة، والمصاخبة.
And al-mumāshaqah: the tugging, and the mutual cursing, and the loud quarreling.
والمشقة، بالكسر: المشاقة، والثوب الخلق، أو القطعة من القطن، ج: كعنب.
And al-mashaqqah, with kasr: al-mushāqah, and the worn-out garment, or a piece of cotton, pl.: like ‘inab.
وأمشقه: ضربه بالسوط.
And amshaqahu: he struck him with a whip.