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šqy - to grow
(Lane 1582)
Cf. also šāqiⁿ ‘high, inaccessible’ (LA 14 539) Other meanings of the Arabic root (such as “to sweep a house,” “to disperse the clouds,” “to make apparent, manifest”) are also noteworthy (Kogan 2015:377).