وارب
Root: ورب
Form: 3
Full Definition
2 One of the sages says, مُوَارَبَةُ الأَرِيبِ جَهْلٌ وَعَنَاءٌ [The striving to outwit the cunning, or intelligent, or sagacious, is ignorance and labour without profit]. [See art. أرب, where this saying, but with مؤاربة in the place of مواربة, is given as a trad.]
3 It is said in a trad., إِنْ بَايَعْتَهُمْ وَارَبُوكَ, i. e., خَادَعُوكَ, If thou buy and sell with them, they will deceive thee, or endeavour to deceive the.
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