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آربهُ

Root: ارب

Form: 3

Full Definition

آربهُIII , Verbal.Noun مُؤَارَبَةٌ, He strove, or endeavoured, to outwit, deceive, beguile, or circumvent, him; syn. دَاهَاهُ. It is said in a trad., مُؤَارَبَةُ الأَرِيبِ جَهْلٌ وَعَنَآءٌ [The striving to outwit the cunning, or intelligent, or sagacious, is ignorance, and labour without profit]: i. e., the intelligent is not to be outwitted. And آرب بِهِ signifies He practised an artifice, a stratagem, or a fraud, upon him.
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