شقف

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See also: سقف and شفق

Arabic

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Etymology

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Borrowed from a lost Aramaic form, שְׁקַפ / ܫܩܱܦ (šqap̄) meaning “to strike, to beat” and also “to crush”.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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شَقَف or شَقْف (šaqaf or šaqfm (collective, singulative شَقَفَة f (šaqafa) or شَقْفَة (šaqfa), plural شُقُوف (šuqūf) or أَشْقَاف (ʔašqāf))

  1. potsherds, fictile vessels or fragments thereof
  2. tambourines
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Ibn ʕĀṣim al-Ġarnāṭī to this entry?) (who in the singulative)

Declension

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References

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  • Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, pages 717–718
  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “شقف”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 440a
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “شقف”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc[2] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 1255b
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “شقف”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 668a
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “شقف”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 562a

Hijazi Arabic

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Root
ش ق ف
1 term

Etymology

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From Arabic شَقَف (šaqaf).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ʃi.ɡaf/, [ʃɪ.ɡaf]

Noun

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شقف (šigafm (collective, singulative شِقْفة f (šigfa))

  1. fragments, potsherds, fictile vessels