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The roots and branches became entangled together. (S.) ― -b2- وَشَجَ, aor. يَشِجُ, inf. n. وَشْجٌ and وَشِيجٌ, It (anything) became entangled, intermixed, confused, or intricate. (TA.) ― -b3- وَشَجَتْ فِى قَلْبِهِ أُمُورٌ وَهُمُومٌ (tropical:) Affairs, and griefs, or solicitudes, became perplexing in his heart. (TA.) ― -b4- قَدْ وَشَجَتْ بِكَ قَرَابَةُ فُلَانٍ, aor. تَشِجُ, K,) (tropical:) The relationship of such a one to thee has become intricate; (S, K, TA;) like as the roots and branches of trees become intricate. (TA.)

, inf. n. تَوْشِيجٌ, (tropical:) He (God) made the relationship intricate. (S, K.) ― -b2- وشّج اللّٰهُ بَيْنَهُمْ (tropical:) God joined and mixed them together. (TA.) ― -b3- وشّج He laced together a مَحْمِل [or basket in which grapes are carried to the dryingplace] with a leather thong, or the like, (such as a شَرِيط, TA,) lest anything should fall from it. (K.)

Trees of which spears are made: (S, K:) or canes growing obliquely, or, as in the M, in an intricate manner: or the hardest of canes: or, as a coll. gen. n., (tropical:) spears; n. un. with ة: (TA:) [See also عِجْلَةٌ:] or, originally, the roots of canes: and afterwards applied to signify spears, themselves; so called because of their intermingling when meeting together. (Ham, p. 165.) ― -b2- تَطَاعَنُوا بِالوَشِيجِ (tropical:) They thrust one another with the spears. (A.) ― -b3- أَفْنَتِ السَّنَةُ الوَشِيجَ Drought destroyed the tangled trees, or their roots; no moisture remaining in the earth. (TA, from a trad.) ― -b4- وَشِيجٌ The roots of the sinews. (TA.) ― -b5- وَشِيجٌ (tropical:) Intricacy of relationship: (S, K:) pl. وَشَايأِجُ. (TA.) Ex. بَيْنَهُمْ وَشَايأِجُ النَّسَبِ There is an intricacy of relationship between them. (TA.)

The root (عِرْق) of a tree. (S, K.) ― -b2- See وَاشِجَةٌ. ― -b3- وَشِيجَةٌ [An implement made of] fibres of the palm tree (ليف) twisted, and then tied (or, as in some lexicons, attached in the manner of a net, TA,) between two pieces of wood, (or a net between two pieces of wood, TA,) upon which reaped wheat &c. are carried. (S, K.)

Anything entangled, intermixed, confused, or intricate. (TA.)

(S, K) and ↓ وَشِيجَةٌ (TA) (tropical:) Intricate relationship; or intricate uterine relationship; (S, K;) and close. (TA.) Ex. بَيْنَهُمْ وَاشِجَةُ رَحِمٍ Between them is an intricate and close relationship. (TA.)

An intricate, or a confused, affair. (TA.)