Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

جاراهُ

Root: جرى

Form: 3

Full Definition

جاراهُIII , Verbal.Noun مُجَارَاةٌ and جِرَآءٌ, He ran with him. You say, جَارَيْتُهُ حَتَّى فُتُّهُ I ran with him until I passed beyond him, or outwent him. (TA in art. فوت.)
2 [He vied, contended, or competed, with him in running: and hence, in any affair; like سَايَرَهُ.] You say, جاراهُ فِى كَذَا وَفَعَلَ مِثْلَ فِعْلِهِ [He vied, contended, or competed, with him in such an affair, and did like as he did]. (Mgh in art. فوض.) And جاراهُ فِى الحَدِيثِ [He vied, contended, or competed, with him in discourse]. And جَارَوْا فِى الحَدِيثِ and فِيهِ [They vied, contended, or competed, one with another, in discourse]. And it is said in a trad., مَنْ طَلَبَ العِلْمَ لِيُجَارِىَ بِهِ العُلَمَآءَ He who seeks knowledge in order that he may run [i. e. vie] with the learned in discussion and disputation, to show his knowledge to others, to be seen and heard. And in another trad., لَا تُجَارِ أَخَاكَ وَلَا تُشَارِهِ وَلَا تُمَارِهِ [Contend not for superiority with thy brother, (so explained in the TA, voce جَارَّ, in art. جر,) nor dispute with him, nor wrangle with him]: or, as some relate it, لَا تُجَارِّ أَخَاكَ وَلَا تُشَارِّهِ. (TA in art. جر, q. v.)


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