شِنَاقٌ

A rope, or cord, with which the head of a he-camel and of a she-camel is pulled: [see 1, first sentence:] plural [of pauc.] أَشْنِقَةٌ and [of mult.] شُنُقٌ. (M, TA.)

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.)

See also شَنَقٌ, in the last quarter of the paragraph.

-A2- As an epithet, Tall: (ISh, S, K:) used alike as masculine and feminine (ISh, K) and dual (ISh) and plural, (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 ↓ شَنْقَاءُ: 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.