ارب

5 تأرّب ذ He affected, or endeavoured to acquire, (تَكَلَّفَ,) cunning, or intelligence, and excellence of judgment, (K, TA,) and deceit, guile, or artifice, and wickedness, mischievousness, or malignity. (TA.) [See اـِرْبٌ.] ― -b2- تأرّب فِي الأَمْرِ: see 1.