نجز

3 ناجزهُ ذ , (Mgh,) or ناجزهُ القِتَالَ, (A,) inf. n. مُنَاجَزَةٌ, (S, A, Mgh, K,) He fought him: (K:) or he went, or came, out, or forth, in the field, to fight him, (S, Mgh, Msb,) and fought him: (S, Mgh:) or he (a horseman) went, or came, out, or forth, into the field, to fight him, (another horseman,) and they strove together until each of them slew the other, or until one of them was slain: (TA:) and ↓ تَنَاجُزٌ signifies the same as مُنَاجَزَةٌ: (K:) you say, تَنَاجَزَ القَوْمُ, meaning, The people contended together in the mutual shedding of blood; as though they hastened in doing so. (TA.) [Hence the saying,] اـِنْ رُمْتَ المُحَاجَزَهْ فَقَبْلَ المُنَاجَزَهْ [ If thou desire the reciprocal prevention of fighting, and the making of peace, let it be before fighting ]: (A:) or المُحَاجَزَهْ قَبْلَ المُنَاجَزَهْ (S, K) [ the reciprocal prevention of fighting, and ] the making of peace, [should be] before the striving together, (المُعَالَجَة, as in the CK,) or hastening, (المُعَالَجَة, as in some copies of the K and in the TA, and, accord. to the latter, المُسَارَعَة,) in fighting: (K, TA:) a proverb: (S, TA:) relating to the prudence of him who hastens to flee from him whom he has not power to withstand: (K:) or applied to him who seeks peace after fighting. (A 'Obeyd, K.) ― -b2- Also, He contended with him in an altercation; disputed with him; litigated with him. (TA.)