شجر

شَجَرٌ ذ (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K, &c.) and ↓ شِجَرٌ and شِيَرٌ, (K,) in which last the ج is changed into ى, like as the ى is changed into ج, as in غَنِجٌّ, originally غَنِىٌّ, or, accord. to IJ, the ى in شِيَرٌ is not changed from ج because it remains ى in the dim., in which, where it so changed, it should be changed back into ج, whereas the dim. of شِيَرَةٌ is said to be شُيَيْرَةٌ and شِيَيْرَةٌ, and because it has kesr instead of fet-h to the ش, [whence it appears that IJ knew not شِجَرٌ,] (TA,) [as coll. gen. ns., Trees; and shrubs, or bushes; which latter are also called, for distinction, دِقُّ الشَّجَرِ; and sometimes applied to plants in general; and, as a gen. n., sometimes meaning the tree, &c.;] the kind of plant that has a trunk, or stem: (S, A, K:) or the kind that has a hard trunk, or stem, (Mgh, Msb,) like the نَخْل &c.: (Msb:) or such as produces seed, and does not come to an end in its year: (Mgh:) or such as rises, or rises high, of itself, whether slender or large, and whether it withstand the winter or lack strength to do so: (K:) called شَجَرٌ from شَجَرَ, because of the intermixing, or confusion, of the branches: (Bd in iv. 68, and TA: *) n. un. with ة, (Msb, K,) i. e. شَجَرَةٌ (S, Mgh, Msb, TA) and ↓ شِجَرَةٌ and شِيَرَةٌ: (TA:) the pl. [of شَجَرٌ] is أَشْجَارٌ (S, Msb) and [of شَجَرَةٌ] شَجَرَاتٌ (Msb, TA) and [of شِيَرَةٌ] شِيَرَاتٌ: (TA:) ↓ شَجْرَاآءُ also signifies the same as شَجَرٌ: (K:) or it is a pl. [or rather a quasi-pl. n.] of شَجَرَةٌ; a pl. [or quasi-pl. n.] of which there are few other instances; قَصْبَاآءُ of قَصَبَةٌ, and طَرْفَاآءُ of طَرَفَةٌ, and حَلْفَاآءُ of حَلَفَةٌ; or, accord. to As, the sing. [or n. un.] of حلفاآءُ is حَلِفَةٌ: and accord. to Sb, شَجْرَاآءُ is sing. and pl., and so are قَصْبَاآءُ and طَرْفَاآءُ and حَلْفَاآءُ: (S:) or شَجْرَاآءُ signifies tangled, or luxuriant, or abundant and dense, شَجَر: (A:) or a collection of شَجَر. (TA.) ― -b2- شَجَرَةُ البَقِّ &c.: see in arts. بق &c. ― -b3- In the saying in a trad., that the شَجَرَة and the صَخْرَة are of, or from, Paradise, by the former is said to be meant The grape-vine: or the tree beneath which allegiance was sworn to the Prophet; and which, it is said, was a شَمُرَة [or gum-acacia-tree]: (TA:) and by the latter, the صخرة [or rock] of Jerusalem. (TA in art. صخر, q. v.) ― -b4- By الشَّجَرَةُ الطَّيِّبَةُ, mentioned in the Kur in xiv. 29, is said to be meant The palm-tree: or a certain tree in Paradise: and by الشَّجَرَةُ الخَبِيثَةُ, in the next verse but one, the colocynth, and the كَشُوث: [see art. خبث:] or each may have a more general application. (Bd in xiv. 31.) And الشَّجَرَةُ المَلْعُونَةُ, mentioned in the Kur xvii. 62, means The tree called الزَّقُّوم: and some explain it as meaning the Devil: and Aboo-Jahl: and El-Hakam Ibn-Abi-l-'As. (Bd.) ― -b5- شَجَرَةٌ also signifies (tropical:) The stock, or origin, of a man: (O, TA:) [hence,] one says, هُوَ مِنْ شَجَرَةٍ طَيِّبَةٍ (tropical:) [ He is of a good stock or origin ]; and مِنْ شَجَرَةِ النُّبُوَّةِ (tropical:) [ of the prophetic stock, meaning of the stock of the Prophet ]. (A.) [And (assumed tropical:) A genealogical tree; a pedigree. ] ― -b6- Also, (CK,) or ↓ شَجْرَةٌ, (O, and K accord. to the TA, [but probably thus in the TA only because found to be so in the O,]) (assumed tropical:) A small speck, or speckle, on the chin of a boy: (O, K:) on the authority of IAar. (TA.) ― -b7- And one says, مَا أَحْسَنَ شَجَرَةَ ضَرْعِهَا, (so in my copy of the A, and accord. to the CK,) or ضرعها ↓ شَجْرَةَ, (O, and so accord. to the text of the K as given in the TA, [but Z has, in the A, distinguished the phrase as tropical, and hence it seems that he held the former reading to be the right,]) (tropical:) How goodly are the shape, (A,) or the size, (O, K,) and the appearance, of her udder! (A, O, K:) or the veins and skin and flesh thereof! referring to a she-camel. (O, K.)