شوق

Borrowed from Aramaic שׁוּקָא (šūqā, “desire, longing”), also found in Mishnaic Hebrew שׁוּק (šūq).

• IPA^(key): /ʃawq/

شَوْق • (šawq) m (plural أَشْواق (ʔašwāq))

1. longing, yearning, missing, verbal noun of شَاقَ (šāqa) (form I)
   • 7th century CE, Sunan an-Nasāʾiyy, 13:127:

     وَأَسْأَلُكَ لَذَّةَ ٱلنَّظَرِ إِلَى وَجْهِكَ وَٱلشَّوْقَ إِلَى لِقَائِكَ فِي غَيْرِ ضَرَّاءَ مُضِرَّةٍ وَلَا فِتْنَةٍ مُضِلَّةٍ

     waʔasʔaluka laḏḏata n-naẓari ʔilā wajhika waš-šawqa ʔilā liqāʔika fī ḡayri ḍarrāʔa muḍirratin walā fitnatin muḍillatin

     I ask you for the sweetness of looking upon your face and desire to meet you in a manner that does not entail a calamity bringing harm or devious temptation.

Denominal verb of شَوْق (šawq).

• IPA^(key): /ʃaw.wa.qa/

شَوَّقَ • (šawwaqa) II (non-past يُشَوِّقُ (yušawwiqu), verbal noun تَشْوِيق (tašwīq))

1. to fill with longing, to arouse desire

From Arabic شَوْق (šawq).

• IPA^(key): /ʃoːɡ/, [ʃo̞ːɡ]

شوق • (šōg) m (plural أشواق (ʔašwāg))

1. longing, yearning, missing

From Ottoman Turkish چوق (çok).

• IPA^(key): [ʃoːɡ]

شوق (šōg)

1. plenty of

Borrowed from Arabic شَوْق (šawq).

شُوْق • (šowq)

1. zeal, ardor

Borrowed from Classical Persian شوق (šawq), from Arabic شَوْق (šawq).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ʃɔːq/
• Rhymes: -ɔːq

شَوق • (śauq) m (Hindi spelling शौक़)

1. desire, yearning
2. ardor, interest
3. pleasure, gratification
4. alacrity, gaiety

• شوقین (śauqīn)
• شوقیہ (śauqiyā)
• شوق ذوق (śauq-zauq, “great pleasure”)

• “شوق”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.