▪ ŠYʕ_1 ‘…’ ↗… ▪ ŠYʕ_2 ‘…’ ↗…♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘to spread, to scatter, to disperse; to become widely known; to make one thing follow another, to follow a guest to bid him farewell; to approximate, in number/quantity, to another; to go along with the ideas of another, to be of the same persuasion; bias, partisan, sect, sectarianism’
▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl Shia, Shiite, from Ar šīʕaẗ ‘followers, disciples, faction’ (meaning influenced by Aram siʕā, abs. form of siʕtā ‘troop, company’), from Ar šāʕa, vb. I, ‘to spread, become known.↗’