شَجْوٌ

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شَجْوٌ Anxiety, or disquietude of mind; and grief, mourning, lamentation, sorrow, sadness, or unhappiness; [and] so شَجًا : thus termed because a man is choked thereby.
2 And A want; an object of want. One says, بَكَى فُلَانٌ شَجْوَهُ [app. meaning Such a one wept for his object of want]: and دَعَتِ الحَمَامَةُ شَجْوَهَا [app. The pigeon called for its object of want].

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