شَجْرٌ

is a verbal noun of شَجَرَ, and signifies The being, or becoming, intricate, complicated, perplexed, confused, or intricately intermixed; as also ↓ اِشْتِجَارٌ. (TA.) You say, شَجَرَ الأَمْرُ بَيْنَهُمْ, (Msb, K,) aorist شَجُرَ , verbal noun شَجْرٌ (Msb, TA) and شُجُورٌ, (K, TA,) The affair, or case, was, or became, complicated, intricate, or confused, so as to be a subject of disagreement, or difference, between them; synonym اِضْطَرَبَ; (Msb;) and so شَجَرَ بَيْنَهُمْ [in which الأَمْرُ is understood]; synonym اِخْتَلَفَ: (S:) it was, or became, an occasion of contention, or dispute, or of disagreement, or difference, between them. (K, TA.) فِيمَا شَجَرَ بَيْنَهُمْ, in the Qur'an, 4:68, means Respecting that which hath become complicated, or intricate, or confused, [so as to be a subject of disagreement, or difference,] between them: and hence the word شَجَرٌ, [“ trees, ” and “ shrubs, ”] because of the intermixing, or confusion, of the branches: (Bd:) or respecting the disagreement, or difference, that has happened between them. (Zj, Mgh.) And it is said in a tradition, إِيَّاكُمْ وَمَا شَجَرَ بَيْنَ أَصْحَابِى Avoid ye the disagreement, or difference, that hath occurred among my companions. (TA.)

-A2- شَجَرَهُ, (K,) aorist شَجُرَ , (TA,) verbal noun شَجْرٌ, He tied it; namely, a thing. (K.)

شَجَرَهُ بِالرُّمْحِ He thrust, or pierced, him with the spear, (S, A, K, TA,) so that it stuck fast in him. (TA.)

شَجَرَهُ عَنْهُ, (S, A, K,) aorist شَجُرَ , (TA,) verbal noun شَجْرٌ, (S,) He, or it, averted, or diverted, him, from it; (S, A, K;) namely, an affair: (K:) he removed, or put away, (TS, K,) him, (K,) or it, (TS,) from it: (TS, K:) he withheld, or debarred, and repelled, him from it. (K.) You say, مَا شَجَرَكَ عَنْهُ What has averted thee, or diverted thee, from it? (S, A.)

شَجَرَ البَيْتَ, (S, K,) aorist and verbal noun as above, (TA,) He propped up the بيت [or tent] with a pole. (S, K, TA. [In some copies of the K, بِعُودٍ is erroneously put for بِعَمُودٍ.]) In like manner شَجَرْتُهُ is said of anything as meaning I propped it up with a pole or the like. (TA.) And شَجَرَ الشَّجَرَةَ, (T, K, TA,) and النَّبَاتَ, (T, TA,) verbal noun as above, (TA,) He raised the hanging branches of the tree, or shrub, (T, K, TA,) and of the plant. (T, TA.) And شَجَرَ الثَّوْبَ He raised the garment, it having gone down. (T, TA.) And شُجِرَ, verbal noun as above, is said of anything as meaning It was raised, upraised, uplifted, or elevated. (TA.)

شَجَرَ فَاهُ He opened his mouth (A, K, * TA) with a stick, or a piece of wood, (A, TA,) by inserting this into the part of the mouth called its شَجْر, (TA,) فَأَوْجَرَهُ [and then put, or poured, medicine, or water, &c., into his mouth]. (A, TA.) And شَجَرَ الدَّابَّةَ, (TS, K, TA,) aorist and verbal noun as above; or, according to one relation of a tradition in which it occurs, ↓ اِشْتَجَرَهَا بِلِجَامِهَا; (TA;) He made the beast to open its mouth by jerking its bridle to curb it. (TS, K, TA.)

And شَجَرَ الشَّىْءَ He threw the thing upon the مِشْجَر [q. v.], (S, K,) i. e. the مِشْجَب. (S.)

-A3- شَجِرَ, aorist شَجَرَ , i. q. كَثُرَ جَمْعُهُ [apparently meaning Its aggregate became large in quantity; or it became much in the aggregate]: (TS, K, TA:) but according to As, [it seems to signify it became collected together, and then scattered, or dispersed, by something: for he says that] ↓ شَجِرٌ [its reg. particle n.] is applied to anything collected together, and then scattered, or dispersed, by something (TA.)