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شَقّ
crack, split, fissure /ʃaqː/
nounB2#3617 most common
Also: cleft, crevice, rift
Example sentences
يوجد شَقّ في الجدار.
There is a crack in the wall.
رأيت شَقًّا في الزجاج.
I saw a crack in the glass.
اتسع الشَقّ في الأرض بعد الزلزال.
The crack in the ground widened after the earthquake.
تسرب الماء من شَقّ صغير في الأنبوب.
Water leaked from a small crack in the pipe.
امتلأت شقوق الجدار القديم بالغبار والعناكب.
The cracks in the old wall filled up with dust and spiders.
كافح الفلاح لسد الشقوق التي أحدثها الجفاف في التربة قبل فوات الأوان.
The farmer struggled to seal the cracks that the drought had opened in the soil before it was too late.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | شَقٌّ | شُقُوقٌ |
| Genitive | شَقٍّ | شُقُوقٍ |
| Accusative | شَقًّا | شُقُوقًا |
| Vocative | يا شَقُّ | يا شُقُوقُ |
Word family
شَقَّto split, cut open, crack
انشقّto split apart, break away
مَشقوقsplit, cracked
شَقِيقfull brotherانشقاقsplit, schism, defection
Etymology
شَقّ is the verbal noun of the Arabic verb شَقَّ (shaqqa), meaning to split or cut open. The root ش-ق-ق carries the core sense of division or tearing apart, and it produces both concrete words for physical cracks and abstract words for hardship or division. This is a native Semitic root, not an Indo-European one.
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