شَبَكَهُ

, aorist شَبِكَ , (K, TA,) verbal noun شَبْكٌ; (TA;) and ↓ شبّكهُ, verbal noun تَشْبِيكٌ; He infixed, (K, TA,) and inserted, (TA,) one part thereof into another, or parts thereof into others: (K, TA:) so in the M: (TA:) [but the latter more usually signifies he infixed, and inserted, many parts thereof into others: (see 8, first sentence, respecting its quasipass.:) and hence, he made it reticulated, retiform, like a net; and like a lattice, or trellis, or grating, or cage: and both signify also he made it commingled in its several parts, intricate, complicated, perplexed, or confused; either properly, as when the object is a fabric, or anything made by art, or created; or tropically, as when the object is ideal:] primarily, (TA,) الشَّبْكُ signifies الخَلْطُ [i. e. the mixing together a thing or things]; and [implies] التَّدَاخُلُ [i. e. the entering of one part of a thing into another part, or of parts of a thing or things into other parts; or the being intermixed, or intermingled]. (S, TA.) Hence, الأَصَابِعِ ↓ تَشْبِيكُ, (S, TA,) meaning The inserting of some of the fingers [i. e. those of one hand] amid the other fingers; (Msb, TA;) which it is forbidden to do in prayer: (TA:) one says, [شبّك أَصَابِعَهُ, or] شبّك بَيْنَ أَصَابِعِهِ, He inserted, or interserted, his fingers together [so as to conjoin his two hands]: (MA:) or, as some interpret it, تَشْبِيكُ الأَصَابِعِ which is forbidden in prayer is (assumed tropical:) the mixing, and entering, into contentions, or altercations. (TA.) [Hence also,] ↓ كَانَتِ الرِّيحُ شَبَّكَتْهُمْ, a saying of Mohammad Ibn-Zekereeyà, meaning (assumed tropical:) The wind had made them like the شَبَكَة [or net], in the interkniting and contraction of the limbs. (Mgh.)

شَبَكَهُ عَنْهُ, verbal noun as above, means (assumed tropical:) He, or it, diverted him, or occupied him so as to divert him, from him, or it. (TA.)