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شَجْرٌ ذ A discordant, or complicated, or confused, affair, or case. (O, K.) -A2- Also The part, of a رَحْل [or camel's saddle], that is between the كَرَّانِ, (K, TA, [this word erroneously written in the CK with ز,]) which are the قَادِمَة and the آخِرَة, (TA in art. شخر,) [i. e. the شَرْخَانِ,] the كَرّ being what conjoins the ظَلِفَتَانِ [in the fore part of the saddle and in like manner in the hinder part]: the part between the كَرَّانِ is also called the شَخْر. (TA in the present art. [It is there said that this part is also called the شَرْخ as well as the شَخْر: but this is a mistake.]) ― -b2- And The chin: (As, O, K:) or (TA, in the K “ and, ”) the place of opening (مَفْرَج, [as in the K voce شِينٌ,] in the K here erroneously written مَخْرَج, the meaning being مَفْتَح,) of the mouth: (K, * TA:) or the part between the two lower jaws: (AA, S, K:) or the hinder part of the mouth: or the side of the mouth, where the upper and lower lips unite: or what has opened of the part where the mouth closes [when medicine or the like is put into it]; expl. by مَا ا@نْفَتَحَ مِنْ مُنْطَبَقِ الفَمِ: or the place of meeting of the لِهْزِمَتَانِ [q. v., a word variously explained]: (K:) or the part where the two sides of the lower jaw unite, beneath the hair that grows between the lower lip and the chin: and, in a horse, the part between the upper, main, portions of the two sides of the lower jaw: (TA:) pl. [of pauc.] أَشْجَارٌ and [of mult.] شُجُورٌ and شِجَارٌ. (K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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