المُفَاتَكَةُ

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المُفَاتَكَةُIII signifies المُمَاهَرَةُ; so says Ibn-' Abbád, and so Z; i. e. The making a show of skill, one with another: [but for المُمَاهَرَةُ, the CK has المُجَاهَرَةُ:] one says, فاتك صَاحِبَهُ i. e. مَاهَرَهُ [He made a show of skill, app. in competition, with his companion].
2 And The falling to the thing (مُوَاقَعَةُ الشَّىْءِ) with vehemence; such as eating, and drinking, and the like. And فاتك الأَمْرَ He threw himself, or plunged, into the affair; syn. وَاقَعَهُ: and the subst. is فِتَاكٌ [having the meaning of the Verbal.Noun: but why this is not called the Verbal.Noun I do not see].
3 And فاتك فُلَانًا (Verbal.Noun مُفَاتَكَةٌ, TA) i. q. دَاوَمَهُ [app. as meaning He kept continually, or constantly, to such a one: agreeably with what here follows].
4 فاتكت الإِبِلُ الحَمْضَ The camels [kept continually, or constantly, to the plants called حَمْض, desiring them as food and finding them wholesome: or] confined themselves to the حمض, not pasturing upon anything therewith. And فاتكت الإِبِلُ المَرْعَى The camels consumed with their mouths [or devoured] the pasture.
5 فاتك فُلَانًا He gave to such a one that which he mentioned as the price of what he had to sell: in the case of his bargaining with him and not giving him anything, one says فاتحهُ. فاتك التَّاجِرُ فِى البَيْعِ is expl. in the A as meaning The trader exceeded the due bounds, or acted unjustly, in offering the thing for sale and naming the price.

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