شقشقة

شِقْشِقَة • (šiqšiqa) f (plural شَقَاشِق (šaqāšiq) or شِقْشِقَات (šiqšiqāt))

1. a substance that comes out of a camel's mouth when excited
   • 10th century CE, al-Sharif al-Radi, “Sermon 3”, in Peak of Eloquence‎, Dar al-Kitab (Lebanon) edition, page 50:

     فَقَالَ هَيْهَاتَ يَا ابْنَ عَبَّاسٍ ـ تِلْكَ شِقْشِقَةٌ هَدَرَتْ ثُمَّ قَرَّتْ!

     faqāla hayhāta yābna ʕabbāsin - tilka šiqšiqatun hadarat ṯumma qarrat!

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2. the most eloquent speaker of a group of people
   • 1694-1698, Al-Majlisi, Bihar al-Anwar‎, Al-Wafa' Foundation edition, volume 29, page 236:

     وَنَطَقَ زَعِيمُ الدِّينِ، وَخَرِسَتْ شَقَاشِقُ الشَّيَاطِينِ

     wanaṭaqa zaʕīmu d-dīni, waḵarisat šaqāšiqu aš-šayāṭīni

     And the leader of the religion had spoken, and the speakers of the devils shut up

• شِقْشِقِيَّة (šiqšiqiyya)

شَقْشَقَة • (šaqšaqa) f (plural شَقَاشِق (šaqāšiq) or شَقْشَقَات (šaqšaqāt))

1. chirp

   Synonym: تَغْرِيد (taḡrīd)

2. loquacity

   Synonyms: ثَرْثَرَة (ṯarṯara), تَشَدُّق (tašadduq)

• (Arabic) Peak of Eloquence - Dar al-Kitab issue.
• Habib Anthony Salmoné, An Advanced Learner's Arabic-English Dictionary (1889)