شَجْوٌ

(assumed tropical:) Anxiety, or disquietude of mind; and grief, mourning, lamentation, sorrow, sadness, or unhappiness; (S;) [and] so ↓ شَجًا: thus termed because a man is choked thereby. (Har p. 33.)

And (assumed tropical:) A want; an object of want. (Az, K, TA.) One says, بَكَى فُلَانٌ شَجْوَهُ [apparently meaning (assumed tropical:) Such a one wept for his object of want]: and دَعَتِ الحَمَامَةُ شَجْوَهَا [apparently (assumed tropical:) The pigeon called for its object of want]. (TA.)