شيق1 شِقْتُ الطُّنُبَ إِلَى الوَتِدِ, (S,) inf. n. شَيْقٌ, (TA,) is like نُطْتُهُ. (S.) [See 1 (last sentence but one) in art. شوق.]شِيقٌ A mountain: (IAar, S:) or the highest part of a mountain: (Skr, O, K:) or a part that is even, (Lth, O, K,) and small in breadth, in the face of a mountain, resembling a wall, (فِىلِهْبِ جَبَلٍ,) (Lth, O,) that cannot be ascended: (Lth, O, K: *) or the most difficult place in a mountain. (S, O, K.) A poet says, cited as using it in the last sense, شَغْوَآءُ تَوطِنُ بَيْنَ الشِّيقِ وَالنِّيقِ [An eagle dwelling between the most difficult place in a mountain and the highest part thereof]. (S, O.) See also a verse of Aboo-Dhu-eyb cited  voce خَافَةٌ, in art. خوف. b2:  A long, or tall, mountain; (جَبَلٌ طَوِيلٌ;) (K;) thus accord. to some in the verse of Aboo-Dhu-eyb. (TA.) b3: And accord. to some, it signifies in that verse (TA) A narrow cleft in a mountain: or in the head thereof: or a cleft between two rocks. (K, TA.) b4:  A side; syn. جَانِبٌ. (Skr, O, K.) One  says, اِمْتَلأَ مِنَ الشِّيقِ إِلَى الشِّيقِ It became filled from side to side. (TA.) A2:  The head [or glans] of the penis. (IAar, O, K.) A3:  The hair of a horse's tail: n. un. with ة. (IAar, O, K.) A4:  A species of fish. (IAar, O, K.) b2:  The aquatic bird [or rather birds] called بُرَك [pl. of بُرْكَةٌ, q. v.]: (K:) n. un. with ة. (TA. [In the K, شِيقَةٌ is mentioned in another place as meaning a certain aquatic bird: and in the O as meaning a species of aquatic birds.]) A5:  And accord. to Ibn-'Abbád, i. q. كِتَابٌ [A writing, or book, &c.]. (O.) A6:  See also art. شوق.شِيَاقٌ: see art. شوق.شَيِّقٌ: see art. شوق.