تشاحّ
Root: شح
Form: 6
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تشاحّVI
The people, or party, were niggardly, tenacious, &c., as above, [see 1,] one to another, فِى الأَمْرِ [in the affair], and عَلَيْهِ [for it], and vied in hastening to it, fearing lest it should become unattainable. And تَشَاحَّا عَلَى
الأَمْرِ لَا يُرِيدَانِ أَنْ يَفُوتَهُمَا They two contended together for the thing, or affair, each of them being unwilling that it should become beyond his reach, or attainment. And تَشَاحَحَا المَآءَ [or تَشَاحَّاهُ] i. q.
تَجَاشَعَاهُ [i. e. They straitened each other in pressing to the water, and vied, each with the other, in endeavouring to satisfy their thirst]. (TA in art. جشع.)
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