شق

Pronunciation: /ʃaq.qa/

“شق” is an Arabic word. Its 16 meanings in English:

verb

to cut into or through (something hard or rigid, for example, a skull, a roof, and so on, or a mass, for example, a rock), to bore through; to crack, to fissure
to cut into or through (something soft or pliable, for example, skin or a skin-covered body part such as a finger, a vein, flesh, or cloth or fabric, or a thickness or layer, for example, a paper, a sheet, or a leaf), to incise, to slit, to gash, to slash, to rip
to cut through (something seemingly flat or level, such as a surface) parallelly;
to make a recess in; to groove; to furrow; to indent
to cut in two or asunder, to tear apart, to split, to cleave
to spread or cause disagreement or factionalism in or among; to divide, to rive
to move or pass through; to cut across; to traverse, to cross
to break or break forth, to come up, to erupt, to emerge
to be or become burdensome [with عَلَى (ʕalā) ‘for’], to be or become hard to bear for; to weigh down

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