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شجو

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

شَجْوٌ ذ (assumed tropical:) Anxiety, or disquietude of mind; and grief, mourning, lamentation, sorrow, sadness, or unhappiness; (S;) [and] so ↓ شَجًا: thus termed because a man is choked thereby. (Har p. 33.) ― -b2- And (assumed tropical:) A want; an object of want. (Az, K, TA.) One says, بَكَى فُلَانٌ شَجْوَهُ [app. meaning (assumed tropical:) Such a one wept for his object of want ]: and دَعَتِ الحَمَامَةُ شَجْوَهَا [app. (assumed tropical:) The pigeon called for its object of want ]. (TA.)

Derived headwords

شَجْوٌ
  1. 1.
بَكَى فُلَانٌ شَجْوَهُ
دَعَتِ الحَمَامَةُ شَجْوَهَا