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مُتَبَارِ متبار متباري part. n. of 6. It is said in a trad., المُتَبَارِيَانِ لَا يُجَابَانِ وَ لَا يُؤْكَلُ طَعَامُهُمَا [ The two persons who vie with each other in the expensiveness of their entertainments shall not have their invitations accepted, nor shall their food be eaten ]. (El-Jámi' es-Sagheer of Es-Suyootee.) The متباريان whose food is forbidden, in a trad., to be eaten, are They who vie with each other in order that each may render the other unable to equal him in respect of the repast prepared by him for his guests: and the doing of this is disliked because of the rivalry and ostentation that are involved in it. (TA.) ― -b2- المُتَبَارِيَانِ is also an appellation of The night and the day. (Har p. 377.)