أشق

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

أشق (form I)

1. أَشُقْ (ʔašuq) /ʔa.ʃuq/: first-person singular non-past active jussive of شَاقَ (šāqa)
2. أُشَقْ (ʔušaq) /ʔu.ʃaq/: first-person singular non-past passive jussive of شَاقَ (šāqa)

أَشَقّ • (ʔašaqq)

1. elative degree of شَاقّ (šāqq); toughest, most wearisome

أَشَقّ • (ʔašaqq) (feminine شَقَّاء (šaqqāʔ), masculine plural شُقّ (šuqq))

1. of inclinated gait in such a manner that a gap is left between the legs, long-footed

From Middle Persian (wšʾk /⁠wašak⁠/), (wšk /⁠wašak⁠/), attested at least thrice in Book Pahlavi and once in Classical Syriac ܘܣܩܐ (wasqā), once in Classical Mandaic ࡀࡅࡎࡒࡀ (wasqā),^[1] denoting in each case a kind of ceremonial drink employed by Zoroastrians in place of wine, which matches gum ammoniac as this was employed in antiquity for its emollient, swelling-atoning and limb-pain-relieving effect,^[2] and apparently the drink was called after ammoniacum it was composed of,^[1] as the later Classical Persian وشه (wuša) and اشه (oša) and the Arabic are known to mean gum ammoniac, and one finds a Byzantine Greek οὐσάκ (ousák) glossed as ammoniacum.^[3]
The measure of the Arabic word is also KaLaM, not only KuLLaM.

• وُشَّق (wuššaq), أُشَّج (ʔuššaj), وُشَّج (wuššaj)

أُشَّق • (ʔuššaq) m

1. Ferula marmarica (in Africa)
2. Ferula ammoniacum syn. Dorema ammoniacum (in Eastern Iran, Afghanistan, Turkistan)
3. Ferula aucheri syn. Dorema aucheri (in Western Persia)
4. gum ammoniac, ammoniacum, obtained from the said plants

• → Middle Armenian: աւշակ (awšak), օշակ (ōšak), օշախ (ōšax), աւշախ (awšax), օշաղ (ōšaġ), օշ (ōš), աւշ (awš), վաշակ (vašak), վաշախ (vašax), վաշաղ (vašaġ) (some of the forms probably from Iranian)
• → Medieval Latin: alaſach (Spain, emended from aſaſach)^[4]
• → Old Spanish: alguaxaque, aluaxaque, aluahasaque, aluasaque, alguaxac, arguaxaque
• → Classical Syriac: ܐܘܫܩ (ʾawšāq)^[1][3][5]

• Freytag, Georg (1830) “أشق”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 38
• Freytag, Georg (1833) “أشق”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 437
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “أشق”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 46