شَجَرٌ
1.
(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, according to IJ, the ى in شِيَرٌ is not changed from ج because it remains ى in the diminutive, in which, where it so changed, it should be changed back into ج, whereas the diminutive 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 plural [of شَجَرٌ] is أَشْجَارٌ (S, Msb) and [of شَجَرَةٌ] شَجَرَاتٌ (Msb, TA) and [of شِيَرَةٌ] شِيَرَاتٌ: (TA:)
شَجْرَاءُ also signifies the same as شَجَرٌ: (K:) or it is a plural [or rather a quasi-plural n.] of شَجَرَةٌ; a plural [or quasi-plural n.] of which there are few other instances; قَصْبَاءُ of قَصَبَةٌ, and طَرْفَاءُ of طَرَفَةٌ, and حَلْفَاءُ of حَلَفَةٌ; or, according to As, the singular [or n. un.] of حلفاءُ is حَلِفَةٌ: and according to Sb, شَجْرَاءُ is singular and plural, and so are قَصْبَاءُ and طَرْفَاءُ and حَلْفَاءُ: (S:) or شَجْرَاءُ signifies tangled, or luxuriant, or abundant and dense,
شَجَر: (A:) or a collection of
شَجَر. (TA.)
2.
شَجَرَةُ البَقِّ &c.: see in arts. بق &c.
3.
In the saying in a tradition, 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 article صخر, q. v.)
4.
By الشَّجَرَةُ الطَّيِّبَةُ, mentioned in the Qur'an, 14:29, 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 article خبث:] or each may have a more general application. (Bd in xiv. 31.) And الشَّجَرَةُ المَلْعُونَةُ, mentioned in the Qur'an, 17:62, means The tree called
الزَّقُّوم: and some explain it as meaning the Devil: and Aboo-Jahl: and El-Hakam Ibn-Abi-l-'As. (Bd.)
5.
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.]
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And one says, مَا أَحْسَنَ شَجَرَةَ ضَرْعِهَا, (so in my copy of the A, and according to the CK,) or ضرعها
شَجْرَةَ, (O, and so according 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.)