شِيقٌ

A mountain: (IAar, S:) or the highest part of a mountain: (Skr, O, K:) or a part that is even, (Lth, O, K,) and small in breadth, in the face of a mountain, resembling a wall, (فِى لِهْبِ جَبَلٍ,) (Lth, O,) that cannot be ascended: (Lth, O, K: *) or the most difficult place in a mountain. (S, O, K.) A poet says, cited as using it in the last sense,

شَغْوَاءُ تَوطِنُ بَيْنَ الشِّيقِ وَالنِّيقِ

[An eagle dwelling between the most difficult place in a mountain and the highest part thereof]. (S, O.) See also a verse of Aboo-Dhu-eyb cited voce خَافَةٌ, in article خوف.

A long, or tall, mountain; (جَبَلٌ طَوِيلٌ;) (K;) thus according to some in the verse of Aboo-Dhu-eyb. (TA.)

And according to some, it signifies in that verse (TA) A narrow cleft in a mountain: or in the head thereof: or a cleft between two rocks. (K, TA.)

A side; synonym جَانِبٌ. (Skr, O, K.) One says, اِمْتَلأَ مِنَ الشِّيقِ إِلَى الشِّيقِ It became filled from side to side. (TA.)

-A2- The head [or glans] of the penis. (IAar, O, K.)

-A3- The hair of a horse's tail: n. un. with ة. (IAar, O, K.)

-A4- A species of fish. (IAar, O, K.)

The aquatic bird [or rather birds] called بُرَك [plural of بُرْكَةٌ, q. v.]: (K:) n. un. with ة. (TA. [In the K, شِيقَةٌ is mentioned in another place as meaning a certain aquatic bird: and in the O as meaning a species of aquatic birds.])

-A5- And according to Ibn- 'Abbád, i. q. كِتَابٌ [A writing, or book, &c.]. (O.)

-A6- See also article شوق.