أشق
العربية
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أشق¹
adjective أَشَقّ · ʔašaqq · الْأَشَقّ · شُقّى · الشُّقّى
- elative degree of شَاقّ (šāqq); toughest, most wearisome
adjective أَشَقّ · ʔašaqq · شَقَّاء · شُقّ · الْأَشَقّ
- of inclinated gait in such a manner that a gap is left between the legs, long-footed
أشق²
Where it comes from
From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (wšʾk /wašak/), [Book Pahlavi needed] (wšk /wašak/), attested at least thrice in Book Pahlavi and once in Classical Syriac ܘܣܩܐ (wasqā), once in Classical Mandaic ࡀࡅࡎࡒࡀ (wasqā), denoting in each case a kind of ceremonial drink employed by Zoroastrians in place of wine, which matches gum ammoniac as this was employed in antiquity for its emollient, swelling-atoning and limb-pain-relieving effect, and apparently the drink was called after ammoniacum it was composed of, as the later Classical Persian وشه (wuša) and اشه (oša) and the Arabic are known to mean gum ammoniac, and one finds a Medieval Greek οὐσάκ (ousák) glossed as ammoniacum.
The measure of the Arabic word is also KaLaM, not only KuLLaM.
noun أُشَّق · ʔuššaq · الْأُشَّق · أُشَّقٌ
- Ferula marmarica (in Africa)
- Ferula ammoniacum syn. Dorema ammoniacum (in Eastern Iran, Afghanistan, Turkistan)
- Ferula aucheri syn. Dorema aucheri (in Western Persia)
- gum ammoniac, ammoniacum, obtained from the said plants
In English
- ammoniacum a resin
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