جادع

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جادعIII , Verbal.Noun مُجَادَعَةٌ and جِدَاعٌ He reviled, being reviled by another, saying جَدْعًا لَكَ; as though each of them cut off the nose of the other: and, or accord. to some, he contended in an altercation; as also تجادع ; [but the latter is said of a number of persons &c.] You say, تَرَكْتُ البِلَادَ أَفَاعِيهَا, and also, I left the countries with their vipers eating one another; not meaning eating in reality, but rending in pieces, or mangling, one another: and عَامٌ أَفَاعِيهَا, and , A year in which the vipers eat one another, by reason of its severity.

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