مُتَبَارِ
Root: برى
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مُتَبَارِ
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]. 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.
2 المُتَبَارِيَانِ is also an appellation of The night and the day.
2 المُتَبَارِيَانِ is also an appellation of The night and the day.
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