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ارب
Root entry · 1 derived lemma3 اآربهُ اآربه اآربة , (S, A,) inf. n. مُؤَارَبَةٌ, (M, A,) He strove, or endeavoured, to outwit, deceive, beguile, or circumvent, him; syn. دَاهَاهُ. (S, M, * A. *) It is said in a trad., (TA,) مُؤَارَبَةُ الأَرِيبِ جَهْلٌ وَعَنَاآءٌ [ The striving to outwit the cunning, or intelligent, or sagacious, is ignorance, and labour without profit]: (A, TA:) i. e., the intelligent is not to be outwitted. (TA.) And اآرب بِهِ signifies He practised an artifice, a stratagem, or a fraud, upon him. (TA, from a trad.)
Derived headwords
اآربهُverb
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مُؤَارَبَةُ الأَرِيبِ جَهْلٌ وَعَنَاآءٌ
اآرب بِهِ