شقف

Borrowed from a lost Aramaic form, שְׁקַפ / ܫܩܱܦ (šqap̄) meaning “to strike, to beat” and also “to crush”.

• IPA^(key): /ʃa.qaf/, /ʃaqf/

شَقَف or شَقْف • (šaqaf or šaqf) m (collective, singulative شَقَفَة f (šaqafa) or شَقْفَة (šaqfa), plural شُقُوف (šuqūf) or أَشْقَاف (ʔašqāf))

1. potsherds, fictile vessels or fragments thereof
2. tambourines

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ibn ʕĀṣim al-Ġarnāṭī to this entry?) (who in the singulative)

• 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 717–718
• Freytag, Georg (1833) “شقف”, 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 440a
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “شقف”, 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 (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 1255b
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “شقف”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 668a
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “شقف”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 562a

From Arabic شَقَف (šaqaf).

• IPA^(key): /ʃi.ɡaf/,

شقف • (šigaf) m (collective, singulative شِقْفة f (šigfa))

1. fragments, potsherds, fictile vessels