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شق

Pronunciation: /ʃaq.qa/

“شق” is an Arabic word. Its 16 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to cut into or through (something hard or rigid, for example, a skull, a roof, and so on, or a mass, for example, a rock), to bore through; to crack, to fissure
  2. to cut into or through (something soft or pliable, for example, skin or a skin-covered body part such as a finger, a vein, flesh, or cloth or fabric, or a thickness or layer, for example, a paper, a sheet, or a leaf), to incise, to slit, to gash, to slash, to rip
  3. to cut through (something seemingly flat or level, such as a surface) parallelly;
  4. to make a recess in; to groove; to furrow; to indent
  5. to cut in two or asunder, to tear apart, to split, to cleave
  6. to spread or cause disagreement or factionalism in or among; to divide, to rive
  7. to move or pass through; to cut across; to traverse, to cross
  8. to break or break forth, to come up, to erupt, to emerge
  9. to be or become burdensome [with عَلَى (ʕalā) ‘for’], to be or become hard to bear for; to weigh down

noun

  1. a gap; a gash; a fissure; a hollow, a cranny
  2. a recess; an indenture; a furrow
  3. splitting, cleavage
  4. fission
  5. half, side; part
  6. double, doppelganger
  7. sex (male or female)

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