See also: شقق, سقف, and شقف

Arabic edit

Root
ش ف ق (š-f-q)

Verb edit

شَفَقَ (šafaqa) I, non-past يَشْفُقُ or يَشْفِقُ‎ (yašfuqu or yašfiqu)

  1. (construed with عَلَى (ʕalā)) to feel compassion with, have mercy upon, pardon
  2. to love tenderly
  3. (obsolete) to feel anxiety, to be cautious

Conjugation edit

Verb edit

شَفَّقَ (šaffaqa) II, non-past يُشَفِّقُ‎ (yušaffiqu)

  1. (obsolete) to overcautiously produce in but a scanty fashion

Conjugation edit

Noun edit

شَفَق (šafaqm (plural أَشْفَاق (ʔašfāq))

  1. verbal noun of شَفَقَ (šafaqa, to feel compassion with, have mercy upon) (form I)
  2. compassion, tender sympathy
  3. ruddy light
    1. the evening twilight; afterglow, crepescule; gloaming
      Coordinate term: غَلَسَ (ḡalasa, the morning twilight)
  4. (obsolete) heed, anxiety, precaution
  5. (obsolete) a kind of tenuously red garment
  6. (obsolete) aloof region confining on a location, tract of the coast or the like (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
    Synonyms: عِرَاق (ʕirāq), نَاحِيَة (nāḥiya), مَجَاز (majāz), عِرْض (ʕirḍ), سَوَاد (sawād), صُقْل (ṣuql), عَضُد (ʕaḍud)

Declension edit

Descendants edit

  • Maltese: xefaq
  • Azerbaijani: şəfəq
  • Kazakh: шапақ (şapaq)
  • Northern Kurdish: şebeq
  • Persian: شفق
  • Turkish: şafak

References edit

  • Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, pages 715–716
  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “شفق”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 435
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “شفق”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc[2] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, pages 1249–1250
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “شفق”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[3], London: Williams & Norgate, page 1573
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “شفق”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary[4], London: W.H. Allen, page 547
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “شفق”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 559