# شق
## Arabic
### Etymology 1.1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃaq.qa/

#### Verb

شَقَّ • (šaqqa) I (non-past يَشُقُّ (yašuqqu), verbal noun شَقّ (šaqq)) (transitive)
* to make a cut or gap in; to cut into or through; to tear through; to transpierce
    Synonyms: ثَقَبَ (ṯaqaba, “to bore”), خَرَمَ (ḵarama, “to hole”), نَخَرَ (naḵara, “to drill through”)
** 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
    Synonyms: كَسَرَ (kasara, “to break”), فَلَقَ (falaqa, “to crack; to splinter”), صَدَعَ (ṣadaʕa, “to fissure; to fracture”), شَرَخَ (šaraḵa, “to hollow”)
** 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
    Synonyms: قَطَعَ (qaṭaʕa, “to cut; to tear”), قَصَّ (qaṣṣa, “to scissor; to clip; to hack”), مَزَعَ (mazaʕa, “to rip; to tear”), خَرَقَ (ḵaraqa, “to pierce, to penetrate; to hack through”), مَزَقَ (mazaqa, “to tear or pull apart; to shred; to rend”)
* to cut through (something seemingly flat or level, such as a surface) parallelly;
** to make a recess in; to groove; to furrow; to indent
* to cut in two or asunder, to tear apart, to split, to cleave
    Synonym: قَسَمَ (qasama, “to divide; to sunder; to split”)
** to spread or cause disagreement or factionalism in or among; to divide, to rive
    Synonyms: قَسَّمَ (qassama, “to split apart; to partition”), فَرَّقَ (farraqa, “to split; to disperse; to scatter”)
* to move or pass through; to cut across; to traverse, to cross

##### Conjugation
#### Verb

شَقَّ • (šaqqa) I (non-past يَشُقُّ (yašuqqu), verbal noun شُقُوق (šuqūq)) (intransitive)
* (of the sun, day, and so on) to break or break forth, to come up, to erupt, to emerge

##### Conjugation
#### Verb

شَقَّ • (šaqqa) I (non-past يَشُقُّ (yašuqqu), verbal noun شَقّ (šaqq) or مَشَقَّة (mašaqqa)) (intransitive)
* to be or become burdensome [with عَلَى (ʕalā) ‘for’], to be or become hard to bear for; to weigh down
    Synonym: ثَقُلَ (ṯaqula, “to be or become heavy or weighty”)

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 1.2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃaqq/

#### Noun

شَقّ • (šaqq) m (plural شُقُوق (šuqūq))
* verbal noun of شَقَّ (šaqqa) (form I)
* (countable) a gap; a gash; a fissure; a hollow, a cranny
    Synonyms: ثُقْب (ṯuqb, “a hole”), فَتْحَة (fatḥa, “an opening”), هُوَّة (huwwa, “a chasm”)
* (countable) a recess; an indenture; a furrow
* (uncountable) splitting, cleavage
* (uncountable, physics) fission

##### Declension
### Etymology 1.3
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃiqq/

#### Noun

شِقّ • (šiqq) m (countable)
* half, side; part
** 2018 July 18, “ar: الرئيس عون يؤكد ضرورة التواصل الرسمي بين لبنان و سوريا”, in Muraselon‎:وأوضح أنه “ليس خافياً أنه كلف المدير العام للأمن العام اللواء عباس إبراهيم إدارة هذا الشق من الحوار الرسمي بين البلدين، بإزاء ما يرتبط بهذين الملفين”.He elucidated that “it isn’t a secret that he instructed the Director-General of Public Security, Major General Abbas Ibrahim, to manage this part of the official dialogue between the two countries, with respect to what is connected with these two files.”
* double, doppelganger
* sex (male or female)

##### Declension
### Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

شُقْ • (šuq) (form I) /ʃuq/
* second-person masculine singular imperative of شَاقَ (šāqa)

### References

* Freytag, Georg (1833) “شق”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 436–437
* Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “شق”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 665–666

## Hijazi Arabic
### Etymology 1

From Arabic شَقَّ (šaqqa).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃaɡɡ/, [ʃaɡ]

#### Verb

شَقّ • (šagg) I (non-past يِشُقّ (yišugg))
* to make a cut or gap in; to cut into or through; to tear through; to transpierce
* to cut through (something seemingly flat or level, such as a surface) parallelly;
* to cut in two or asunder, to tear apart, to split, to cleave
    Synonym: قَسَم (gasam, “to divide; to sunder; to split”)

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2

From Arabic شَقّ (šaqq).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃaɡɡ/, [ʃaɡ]

#### Noun

شَقّ • (šagg) m (plural شُقُوق (šugūg))
* (countable) a tear; a gap; a gash; a fissure; a hollow, a cranny

### Etymology 3

From Arabic شِقّ (šiqq).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃiɡɡ/, [ʃɪɡ]

#### Noun

شِقّ • (šigg) m
* a half, a side; a part

## Persian
### Etymology

From Arabic شِقّ (šiqq).

### Noun

شق • (šeqq)
* alternative (one of two possibilities)

### Noun

شق • (šaqq)
* split, crack

### Adjective

شق • (šaqq)
* stiff, erect
* (spoken, vulgar) erect, hard (of a penis)
    کیرم شق شده! ― kiram šaqq šode! ― I got a boner! (literally, “my dick is erect”)

#### Derived terms

* کلّه‌شق (kalle-šaqq, “stubborn, bull-headed”)
* شق کردن (šaq kardan, “to get a boner”)
* شقّ و رق (šaqq-o raqq, “upright, firm and standing, form preserving”)