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شِنَاقٌ ذ A rope, or cord, with which the head of a he-camel and of a she-camel is pulled: [see 1, first sentence:] pl. [of pauc.] أَشْنِقَةٌ and [of mult.] شُنُقٌ. (M, TA.) ― -b2- A cord, (A' Obeyd, S, K,) or thong, (A' Obeyd, K,) with which the mouth-of a water-skin is bound, (A' Obeyd, S, Mgh, K,) and that of a leathern water-bag, and which is untied in order that the water may pour forth: (A' Obeyd, TA:) or the suspensory cord of a water-skin: and any cord by which a thing is suspended. (M.) ― -b3- See also شَنَقٌ, in the last quarter of the paragraph. -A2- As an epithet, Tall: (ISh, S, K:) used alike as masc. and fem. (ISh, K) and dual (ISh) and pl., (ISh, K,) not dualized nor pluralized: (ISh:) applied to a man, (S, TA,) and to a woman, and to a he-camel, and to a she-camel: applied to a she-camel as meaning tall, and longnecked; as also ↓ شَنْقَآءُ : and to a he-camel as meaning tall and slender: (ISh, TA:) also, and ↓ مَشْنُوقٌ , applied to a horse as meaning tall. (T, TA.) See also أَشْنَقُ.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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