جاهر
Root: جهر
Form: 3
Full Definition
2 [Its Verbal.Noun] مُجَاهَرَةٌ signifies The fighting [with any one] face to face: and the showing open enmity, or hostility, with any one: and the reading, or reciting, a thing aloud: and the speaking loudly. You say, جاهر بِالعَدَاوَةِ, Verbal.Noun مُجَاهَرَةٌ and جِهَارٌ, He showed open enmity or hostility, with another. And جَاهَرْتُهُمْ بِالأَمْرِ I acted openly with them in the affair, or case; syn. عَالَنْتُهُمْ بِهِ. [And جاهرهُ He treated him openly with enmity &c.]
3 جَاهَرَهُمْ بِالأَمْرِ, Verbal.Noun مُجَاهَرَةٌ and جِهَارٌ, [is explained as signifying] He vied with them, or strove to overcome or surpass them, in the affair, or case. [But غالبهم, in the TA, and المُغَالَبَةُ, in the K, are here evidently mistranscriptions for عَالَنَهُمْ and المُعَالَنَةُ.]
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