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شجر

Root entry · 18 derived lemmas

The root شجر primarily relates to trees and plants growing on stalks. It extends to concepts of abundance of trees, places where trees grow, and things resembling trees or made of wood. It also encompasses meanings of divergence, dispute, and redirection.

Derived headwords

الشجر والشجرةnoun
  1. 1.
    Treeboth

    That which grows on a stalk from the plants of the earth.

أرض شجيرة وشجراءadjective
  1. 1.
    Abundant with treesboth

    Land that is rich in trees.

واد شجيرadjective
  1. 1.
    Valley with treesboth

    A valley characterized by the presence of trees.

الشجراءnoun
  1. 1.
    Many treesboth

    The plural of شجرة, referring to a collection of trees.

  2. 2.
    Collection of treesclassical

    Can be used as both singular and plural, referring to a group of trees.

المشجرةnoun
  1. 1.
    Place of treesboth

    A location where trees grow or are found.

أرض مشجرةadjective
  1. 1.
    Wooded landboth

    Land that is covered with trees.

أشجرverb
  1. 1.
    more treedboth

    more treed

المشجرnoun
  1. 1.
    Wooden frameclassical

    A wooden structure, specifically referring to the frame of a litter (هودج) or a bed.

  2. 2.
    Wooden supportclassical

    A wooden beam or support, such as one placed behind a door or used to reinforce a bed.

  3. 3.
    Well timbersclassical

    The wooden structure supporting a well.

المشاجرnoun
  1. 1.
    Litter polesclassical

    The wooden poles or framework of a camel litter (هودج).

  2. 2.
    Open-topped littersclassical

    Vehicles for riding, smaller than a litter, with open tops.

الشجارnoun
  1. 1.
    Wooden barclassical

    A wooden bar, such as one placed behind a door or used to reinforce a bed.

  2. 2.
    Well timbersclassical

    The wooden structure supporting a well.

  3. 3.
    Riding vehicleclassical

    A type of open-topped riding vehicle, smaller than a litter.

الشجرnoun
  1. 1.
    Area between jawsclassical

    The space between the two jaws.

  2. 2.
    Diversionclassical

    A turning aside or redirection.

شَجَرَverb
  1. 1.
    what grows on a stem from the plants of the earthboth

    what grows on a stem from the plants of the earth

  2. 2.
    the matter differed among themboth

    the matter differed among them

اشتجرverb
  1. 1.
    they disputedboth

    they disputed

تشاجرverb
  1. 1.
    To disputeboth

    To quarrel or argue with one another.

  2. 2.
    To spear each otherclassical

    To fight or stab each other with spears.

المشاجرةnoun
  1. 1.
    Disputeboth

    A quarrel, argument, or conflict.

الشجيرnoun
  1. 1.
    Strangerclassical

    An unfamiliar person or animal.

  2. 2.
    Odd lotclassical

    A lot or piece (e.g., a reed in a game of chance) that is different from the others.

شاجَرَverb
  1. 1.
    To graze completelyclassical

    To graze on grass and herbs until nothing is left, then move to trees.

مشجرadjective
  1. 1.
    place of treesboth

    place of trees

Parallel reading

الشجر والشجرة: ما كان على ساق من نبات الأرض.
Al-shajar and al-shajarah: that which grows on a stalk from the plants of the earth.
وأرض شجيرة وشجراء، أي كثيرة الأشجار.
And land shajirah and shajara, meaning abundant with trees.
ولم يأت من الجمع على هذا المثال إلا أحرف يسيرة: شجرة وشجراء، وقصبة وقصباء، وطرفة وطرفاء، وحلفة وحلفاء.
And few words have come in the plural form like this example: shajarah and shajara, qasabah and qasabaa, tarafah and tarafaa, halfah and halfaa.
والمشجرة: موضع الأشجار.
And al-mushjarah: the place of trees.
وهذه الأرض أشجر من هذه، أي أكثر شجرا.
And this land is ashjar than this one, meaning more trees.
والمشجر بكسر الميم: المشجب.
And al-mashjar with a kasra on the mim: al-mashjab.
قال الأصمعي: المشاجر: عيدان الهودج.
Al-Asma'i said: Al-mashajir: the poles of the litter.
وقال أبو عمرو: مراكب دون الهودج مكشوفة الرؤوس.
And Abu Amr said: Vehicles less than a litter, with open tops.
قال: ويقال لها الشجر أيضا، الواحد شجار.
He said: And they are also called al-shajar, the singular is shijar.
قال: والشجار أيضا الخشبة التي توضع خلف الباب، ويقال لها بالفارسية " مترس ".
He said: And al-shijar is also the wooden bar placed behind the door, and it is called 'mitras' in Persian.
والشجار أيضا: خشب البئر.
And al-shijar is also: the timbers of the well.
الشجير: الغريب من الناس والإبل.
Al-shajir: the stranger among people and camels.
والشجر بالفتح: ما بين اللحيين.
And al-shajar with the fatha: what is between the jaws.
يقال: ما شجرك عنه، أي ما صرفك.
It is said: What shajarak 'anhu, meaning what diverted you.
وقد شجرتني عنه الشواجر.
And the diverting things have diverted me from it.
وشجره بالرمح، أي طعنه.
And shajarahu bil-rumh, meaning he stabbed him with a spear.
وشجر بيته، أي عمده بعمود.
And he shajjar baytahu, meaning he propped up his house with a pole.
وشجر بين القوم، إذا اختلف الامر بينهم.
And shajara bayna al-qawm, if matters diverged among them.
وشجرت الشئ: طرحته على المشجر، وهو المشجب.
And shajjartu al-shay': I cast the thing onto the mashjar, which is al-mashjab.
واشتجر القوم وتشاجروا، أي تنازعوا.
And the people ishtajaru and tashajaru, meaning they disputed.
والمشاجرة: المنازعة.
And al-mushajarah: the dispute.
وتشاجروا بالرماح: تطاعنوا.
And they tashajaru bil-rumah: they speared each other.
واشتجر الرجل، إذا وضع يده تحت شجره على حنكه.
And the man ishtajara, when he placed his hand beneath his jaw.
يقال شاجر المال، إذا رعى العشب والبقل فلم يبق منهما شئ، فصار إلى الشجر يرعاه.
It is said: The money shajara, when it grazed the grass and herbs leaving nothing, then it moved to the trees to graze.
وديباج مشجر: نقشه على هيئة الشجر.
And a brocade mushajjar: its pattern is in the form of trees.