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جاهضهُ

Root: جهض

Form: 3

Full Definition

جاهضهُIII , Verbal.Noun جِهَاضٌ, He endeavoured to prevent him, or to turn him away [from a thing]; and strove to be before him; syn. مَانَعَهُ and عَاجَلَهُ. Hence the saying, in a trad. of Mohammad Ibn-Meslemeh, relating his endeavouring to attack a man on the day of Ohod, فَجَاهَضَنِى عَنْهُ أَبُو سُفْيَانَ But Aboo-Sufyán endeavoured to turn me away from him (مَانَعَنِى عَنْهُ), and put me away [from him].


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