أَشْدَقُ

A man wide in the شِدْق: (M:) or a man wide in the شِدْقَانِ: (Mgh, Msb:) or wide in the شِدْق, and inclining therein in any manner: (TA:) feminine شَدْقَاءُ: (M, K:) and plural شُدْقٌ: (K:) and ↓ شَدْقَمٌ and ↓ شَدْقَمِىٌّ signify the same as أَشْدَقُ; the م being augmentative, as in فُسْحُمٌ and سُتْهُمٌ; or, according to IJ, it is radical: (M, TA:) whence, i. e. from شَدْقَمٌ in the sense explained above, (I 'Ab, TA,) one says also ↓ شِدْقٌ شَدْقَمٌ, meaning a wide شدق: (I 'Ab, M, TA:) and شَفَةٌ شَدْقَاءُ means a lip wide in the part where each شِدْق is cleft [by the extremity of the mouth]. (M, TA.)

It is also applied as an epithet to an orator, (S, M, K, TA,) meaning Eloquent; (M, K, TA;) good and eloquent in speech; (M, * TA;) and so ↓ شَدْقَمٌ. (TA.)