اشتغر

, (JK, T,) or ↓ اشغر, (S, K,) It (a watering-place) was on one side of the beaten track: (JK, T, S, K:) [both verbs may be correct: that the former is so appears from the fact that] a poet, cited in the T, [describing a water-ing-place,] uses the phrase ↓ بَعِيدُ الُشْتَغَرِ [apparently meaning far off on one side of the road]. (TA.) See also 4.

اشتغر العَدَدُ The number was, or became, large. (S, K.)

اشتغر الإِبِلُ The camels were, or became, many and various. (K.)

اشتغرت عَلَيْهِ ضَيْعَتُهُ i. q. فَشَتْ, (A,) i. e. His affairs became disordered so that he knew not with which of them to begin. (TA in article فشو.)

اشتغر الأَمْرُ The affair became confused: (K:) or became large, or wide, and great, بِفُلَانِ [with such a one]. (AZ, TA.)

اشتغرت الحَرْبُ The war, or battle, became wide and great. (TA.)

اشتغر عَلَيْهِ حِسَابُهُ, (T, S, A,) in the K ↓ أَشْغَرَ, but the former is the right, (TA,) (tropical:) What he had to reckon was, or became, too diffuse and numerous to him; (T, K;) such that he could not find the way to sum it up. (S, A.)

ذَهَبَ فُلَانٌ يَعُدُّ بَنِى فُلَانٍ فَاشْتَغَرُوا عَلَيْهِ Such a one went to number the sons of such a one, and they were too numerous for him. (TA.)

اشتغر فِى الفَلَاةِ He went far into the desert. (S, K.)

اشتغر عَلَيْنَا He exalted himself above us, and boasted against us. (K.)