شاخ

shāḵẖ(=S. शाखा), s.f. A bough, branch (of a tree, etc.); a twig; a stalk (of wheat, etc.); a slip or cutting; a horn; a cupping instrument; (fig.) a dilemma, difficulty; objection; obstacle;—a kind of cake made of wheat flour and fried in ghī:—shāḵẖ-dār, adj. Branched; branchy, horned:—shāḵẖ-dar-shāḵẖ, adj. Branched out; ramified; diffused; far aṇd wide; various-coloured; various, of different sorts; entangled, involved:—shāḵẖ-ě-daryā, s.f. Branch of a river:—shāḵẖ-dahana, s.m. A small powder-flask (for priming):—shāḵẖ-ě-za`farān, 'A twig of saffron'; (met.) anything strange and rare; a rara avis; one who esteems too highly his own deserts, a proud or conceited person:—shāḵẖ-sār, adj. Full of branches;—s.f. A place abounding in trees; a garden:—shāḵẖ-shāna, vulg. shāḵẖ-sānā, s.m. lit.'Horn and shoulder blade'; noise, report, to-do, rumpus, row; calumny; trouble, difficulty, dilemma; objection, cavil; intimidation, threat (the phrase owes its origin to the circumstance of certain mendicants carrying in one hand a ram's horn and in the other a ram's shoulder-blade with which they make an objectionable noise before the doors of those from whom they seek relief):—shāḵẖ-shāne nikālnā(-meṅ), To raise an outcry (in the matter of), to make a pother (about); to raise a difficulty or obstacle (in respect of); to raise an objection (to), to carp or cavil (at):—shāḵẖ-shāne nikalnā, v.n. A difficulty or trouble to arise; a pother to be made; etc.:—shāḵẖ-shajra, s.m. A genealogical table, a pedigree:—shāḵẖ-shikasta, adj. Broken-horned:—shāḵẖlagānā(-meṅ), To put a slip or cutting (into the ground); to graft (in);—to cup:—shāḵẖ-madrasa, s.m. A branch school:—shāḵẖnikālnā(-meṅ), To raise a difficulty or obstacle (in the way of); to put a spoke (in the wheel of); to raise an objection (to), to carp or cavil (at).