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ش ر ن ق

Root entry · 5 derived lemmas

This root appears to relate to the shedding of skin, particularly by snakes, and also to torn or ragged clothing. It is noted as being obscure or a misspelling of a similar root.

Derived headwords

شَرْنَِقverb
  1. 1.
    to shed skinclassical

    To shed one's skin, as a snake does.

شَرْنَقةnoun
  1. 1.
    shedding of skinclassical

    The act or process of shedding skin.

شَرَنَقnoun
  1. 1.
    snake's shed skinclassical

    The skin that a snake sheds.

الشَّرانِقnoun
  1. 1.
    torn clothesclassical

    Ragged or torn garments.

  2. 2.
    snake's shed skinclassical

    The shed skin of a snake.

الشَّهْدَنَجnoun
  1. 1.
    cocoonclassical

    A cocoon, likely referring to the silkworm's casing.

Parallel reading

أهمله الجوهري وقال الصاغاني عن بعضهم: أي قطع
Al-Jawhari neglected it, and Al-Saghani said from some of them: meaning to cut.
وهو مصحف عن شربق، بالموحدة والشرانق سلخ الحية إذا ألقته
And it is a misspelling of 'sharbaq', with the letter 'ba', and 'al-sharanq' is the snake's shed skin when it casts it off.
هكذا سمت بعض العرب يقول
Thus some of the Arabs named it, it is said.
وقال أبو عمرو: الشرانق من الثياب المخترقة لا واحد له
And Abu Amr said: 'Al-sharanq' refers to torn garments, and it has no singular form.
وأعلى جلده شرانق
And the upper part of its skin is 'sharanq' (torn).
الشرانق هو الشهدانج
'Al-sharanq' is 'al-shahdanaj'.