تَنَاحَرُوا

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تَنَاحَرُواVI They stabbed one another in the نَحْر, or slew one another, in fight. Here the verb is used in its proper sense.
2 [Hence,] تَنَاحَرَ القَوْمُ عَلَى الأَمْرِ, and عَلَيْهِ, The people were mutually niggardly, or tenacious, or avaricious, of the thing, so that they almost slew one another.

def.2 الدَّارَانِ تَتَنَاحَرَانِ The two houses face, or front, each other. [The like is also said in the A.] Fr. says, I have heard some of the Arabs say مَنَازِلُهُمْ تَنَاحَرُ, [for تَتَنَاحَرُ,] Their places of abode face, or front, one another; this is opposite to this.

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