شجر

Of the root ش ج ر (š j r). See it for more.

شَجَرَ • (šajara) I (non-past يَشْجُرُ (yašjuru), verbal noun شَجْر (šajr) or شُجُور (šujūr))

1. to occur, to happen
2. to break out (of a disturbance, etc.)
3. to be complex, to be intricate, to be complicated
4. to be disputed [with بَيْنَ (bayna) ‘between/among people’]

شَجَرَ • (šajara) I (non-past يَشْجُرُ (yašjuru), verbal noun شَجْر (šajr))

1. to pierce [with accusative ‘someone/something’ and بِ (bi) ‘with a weapon, etc.’]
2. to tie up, to chain [with accusative ‘something’ and إِلَى (ʔilā) ‘to something’]
3. to turn away from, to avert [with accusative ‘someone/something’ and عَن (ʕan) ‘from something’]
4. to refuse, to keep off, to hinder [with accusative ‘someone/something’ and عَن (ʕan) ‘from something’]
5. to prop up, to support with a pole
6. to raise, to lift (e.g. a garment)
7. to force open (e.g. someone's mouth) with a stick
8. to force (an animal) to open the mouth (by pulling on the reins)

شَجْر • (šajr) m

1. verbal noun of شَجَرَ (šajara) (form I)
2. object of dispute, disputed matter or question

شَجَر • (šajar) m (collective, singulative شَجَرَة f (šajara), dual شَجَرَتَان (šajaratān), plural أَشْجَار (ʔašjār), paucal شَجَرَات (šajarāt))

1. trees

   شَجَر (šajar) = trees (in general) (collective)

   شَجَرَة (šajara) = a tree (singulative)

   شَجَرَتَان (šajaratān) = two trees (dual)

   شَجَرَات (šajarāt) = 3 to 10 trees, some trees, a few trees (paucal, little plural)

   أَشْجَار (ʔašjār) = (kinds of) trees (big plural)

2. shrubs, bushes
3. stock, origin, pedigree, background, genealogy
4. family, tribe, support system, connections

شِجَر or شَجَر • (šijar or šajar) m (collective, singulative شِجَرَة f (šijara) or شَجَرَة (šajara), plural أَشْجَار (ʔašjār))

1. (al-Andalus, Morocco) fig trees
   • a. 1135, Ibn ʿAbdūn, “Un document sur la vie urbaine et les corps de métiers à Séville au début du XII^e siècle: Le traité d’Ibn ʿAbdūn publié avec une introduction et un glossaire”, in Évariste Lévi-Provençal, editor, Journal asiatique‎^[1], number 2, published 1934, page 248 (٥٦) 16:

• شِجَار (šijār)

شَجَّرَ • (šajjara) II (non-past يُشَجِّرُ (yušajjiru), verbal noun تَشْجِير (tašjīr))

1. to plant with trees
2. to afforest

شَجْر • (šajr) m (plural أَشْجَار (ʔašjār) or شُجُور (šujūr) or شِجَار (šijār))

1. chin
2. corner of the mouth, opening of the mouth

From Arabic شَجَر (šajar).

شجر • (šajar) (plural اشجار)

1. (rare) tree

   Synonym: درخت (deraxt)

• سجر (sajar, Galilee)

From Arabic شَجَر (šajar).

• IPA^(key): /ʃa.ʒar/, [ˈʃa.ʒɑrˤ]

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شجر • (šajar) m (collective, singulative شجرة f (šajara), paucal شجرات (šajarāt))

1. (collective) trees

• غابة (ḡābe, “forest; jungle”), حرش (ḥurš, “forest, wood”)

Borrowed from Classical Persian شجر (šajar), itself from Arabic شَجَر (šajar).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ʃə.d͡ʒəɾ/
• Rhymes: -əɾ
• Hyphenation: شَ‧جَر

شَجَر • (śajar) m (formal plural اشجار, Hindi spelling शजर)

1. (formal or poetic) tree

   Synonyms: درخت (draxt), پیڑ (peṛ)

   • 2010, Javed Akhtar, Jidhar Jaate Hain Sab [Whither Everyone Goes]:

     بلندی پر انہیں مٹی کی خوشبو تک نہیں آتی
     یہ وہ شاخیں ہیں جن کو اب شجر اچھا نہیں لگتا

     bulandī par unhẽ miṭṭī kī xuśbū tak nahī̃ ātī
     ye vo śāxẽ haĩ jin ko ab śajar acchā nahī̃ lagtā.

     At that lofty height, the fragrance of the soil does not reach
     Those branches, to whom the tree no longer seems good.

• “شجر”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “شجر”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “شجر”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.