شجر

شَجْرٌ

A discordant, complicated, or confused affair or case.

A nominal use describing an affair characterized by entanglement or disagreement.

• Lane · entry 37882

شَجَرَهُ

To tie or fasten a thing.

Transitive use with a thing as object.

• Lane · entry 37875

شَجَرَهُ بِالرُّمْحِ

To thrust or pierce someone with a spear so that it remains stuck in him.

The spear construction specifies piercing with retention of the weapon.

• Lane · entry 37875
• Mufradāt · row 749

شَجَرَهُ عَنْهُ

To avert, divert, withhold, or repel someone or something from an affair.

Constructed with عَنْ to express turning or keeping away from a matter.

• Lane · entry 37875
• Mufradāt · row 749

شَجَرَ البَيْتَ

To prop up a house or tent with a pole.

The object is supported by a pole or comparable upright.

• Lane · entry 37875

شَجَرَ الشَّجَرَةَ

To raise or lift hanging branches, plants, or a lowered garment.

Also used absolutely of something being raised, upraised, or elevated.

• Lane · entry 37875

شَجَرَ فَاهُ

To force open the mouth with a stick, or to make an animal open its mouth by pulling its bridle.

The action involves inserting a piece of wood or jerking a bridle to open or curb the mouth.

• Lane · entry 37875

شَجَرَ الشَّيْءَ

To place or throw a thing onto a wooden rack or stand.

The rack is the مِشْجَر or related wooden stand.

• Lane · entry 37875

شَجِرَ

To become numerous or large in aggregate; according to one description, to become gathered and then dispersed.

The reported descriptions differ over whether dispersal is included in the use.

• Lane · entry 37875

تَشْجِيرُ النَّخْلِ

The laying of palm racemes upon branches to prevent them from breaking.

A horticultural operation performed when the fruit and racemes are heavy.

• Lane · entry 37876

شَاجَرَ المَالُ

Of cattle, to pasture upon trees or shrubs after consuming herbs and leguminous plants.

A Form III use describing grazing on woody growth.

• Lane · entry 37877

شَاجَرَ

To contend, dispute, or litigate with another.

A reciprocal Form III construction with two disputing parties.

• Lane · entry 37877

أَشْجَرَتِ الأَرْضُ

Of land, to produce trees or shrubs.

Form IV use with the land as the subject.

• Lane · entry 37878

اِشْتَجَرَ

To become knit, connected, commingled, intricate, or confused, one part with another.

The Form VIII use can describe physical interlacing or a state of entanglement.

• Lane · entry 37881

اِشْتَجَرُوا

To become embroiled in conflict, contend, disagree, or thrust at one another with spears.

With spears, the construction can describe their interlocking or their thrusting and piercing one another; with people, it describes dispute or disagreement.

• Lane · entry 37881

اِشْتَجَرَ

To precede, outgo, or outstrip another.

A distinct Form VIII use.

• Lane · entry 37881

اِشْتَجَرَ

Of sleep, to withdraw or keep aloof from someone.

Used of sleep that does not come or does not remain with a person.

• Lane · entry 37881

اِشْتَجَرَ

To place the hand beneath the chin and lean upon the elbow without lying on one's side.

A posture described with the related noun شَجْر for the area beneath the chin.

• Lane · entry 37881

اِشْتَجَرَ

Of a horse, to be bridled, reined, or curbed.

This reported use is expressed tentatively in the lexical evidence and may involve a passive reading.

• Lane · entry 37881

شَجْرٌ

The part of a camel saddle between its two principal joining pieces.

A technical saddle term.

• Lane · entry 37882

شَجْرٌ

The chin or a part of the mouth and lower-jaw region, including the opening or meeting area of the jaws.

Authorities extend the anatomical term to related portions of the mouth; it is also used of the corresponding region in a horse.

• Lane · entry 37882

شَجَرَةٌ

A person's stock, lineage, or origin; figuratively, a genealogical tree or pedigree.

Figurative use in expressions such as being of a good or prophetic stock.

• Lane · entry 37883

شَجَرَةٌ

A small speck or speckle on a boy's chin.

An attributed, specialized use.

• Lane · entry 37883

شَجَرَةُ الضَّرْعِ

The shape, size, and appearance of a she-camel's udder, including its veins, skin, and flesh.

A figurative expression applied specifically to the form or substance of an udder.

• Lane · entry 37883

الحُرُوفُ الشَّجْرِيَّةُ

The articulatory letters ج, ش, and ض.

A technical phonetic term for letters whose place of articulation is called the شَجْر.

• Lane · entry 37888

شِجَارٌ

The wood or wooden apparatus by which a well-bucket is drawn out.

A technical implement term; a cited plural reading is disputed in the reported verse.

• Lane · entry 37890

شِجَارٌ

A wooden bar or piece placed behind a door.

A household wooden fastening.

• Lane · entry 37890

شِجَارٌ

A piece of wood affixed beneath a couch-frame to repair or reinforce it.

A support or reinforcing piece for a bed or couch frame.

• Lane · entry 37890

شِجَارٌ

A piece of wood placed in a kid's mouth to prevent it from suckling.

A livestock implement.

• Lane · entry 37890

شِجَارٌ

A brand or mark made with a hot iron on camels.

A specialized animal-marking term.

• Lane · entry 37890

شَجِيرٌ

Abounding in trees or shrubs, said of a valley or land.

The adjective applies to a place rich in woody growth.

• Lane · entry 37891

شَجِيرٌ

Strange or belonging to another; a stranger.

Applied to a man or a camel.

• Lane · entry 37891

شَجِيرٌ

An arrow used in the game of maysir that is not from the same kind of tree as the other arrows, or a borrowed arrow associated with a favorable omen.

A specialized gambling and divination term with variant explanations.

• Lane · entry 37891

شَجِيرٌ

Bad, corrupt, or disapproved.

An adjectival use reported from particular authorities.

• Lane · entry 37891

شَجِيرٌ

A companion or friend.

The plural is شُجَرَاءُ.

• Lane · entry 37891

شَجِيرٌ

A sword.

A specialized nominal use.

• Lane · entry 37891

شَوَاجِرُ

Things that withhold, debar, or divert.

A plural noun used for obstacles or diverting factors.

• Lane · entry 37893

أَشْجَرُ

More wooded or containing more trees or shrubs.

Used comparatively of one tract of land relative to another.

• Lane · entry 37894

مَشْجَرٌ

A place where trees or shrubs grow; by extension, a place rich in trees.

A place noun, with a variant interpretation as a large quantity of trees.

• Lane · entry 37895

مَشْجَرٌ

A place or occasion of contending, disputing, or litigating.

A place noun derived from the branch of disputation.

• Lane · entry 37895

أَرْضٌ مُشْجِرَةٌ

Land that produces or supports the growth of trees or shrubs.

An adjectival description of fertile or wooded land.

• Lane · entry 37896

مِشْجَرٌ

A rack or stand made from pieces of wood tied together, on which clothes, furniture, or utensils are placed.

A structure with bound wooden pieces and splayed feet, also called a مِشْجَب.

• Lane · entry 37897

مِشْجَرٌ

The wooden framework or pieces of wood of a woman's howdah.

The term may refer to the frame itself or to the wood used in it.

• Lane · entry 37897

مِشْجَرٌ

A small women's vehicle, smaller than a howdah and open at the top.

An alternative nominal use for the uncovered vehicle made from or associated with the framework.

• Lane · entry 37897

مُشَجَّرٌ

Figured work patterned in the form of trees, including tree-patterned silk brocade.

A descriptive passive participle for ornament or textile design.

• Lane · entry 37899

مُشْتَجَرُ الرِّمَاحِ

The place where spears commingle or where spears are thrust and pierce.

A place noun describing spear combat.

• Lane · entry 37900

مُشْتَجِرٌ

Commingled or confused, especially said of spears.

An adjectival description of intermingled weapons.

• Lane · entry 37901