ساجلهُ
Root: سجل
Form: 3
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ساجلهُIII
, Verbal.Noun مُسَاجَلَةٌ, [and app. سِجَالٌ also, (see سَجْلٌ,)] He vied, competed, or contended for superiority, with him; emulated, or rivalled, him; or imitated him; doing like as he did; originally in the drawing of water; each of them bringing forth in his
سَجْل [or bucket] the like of what the other brought forth [or endeavouring to do so]; the one, of them, that desisted being overcome: and also,
[He who contends for superiority with me contends for superiority with one possessing glory, who fills the bucket to the tying of the rope that is attacked to the middle of its cross-bars]: and hence the saying, الحَرْبُ سِجَالٌ. (S. [See سَجْلٌ.])مَنْ يُسَاجِلْنِى يُسَاجِلْ مَاجِدًا يَمْلَأُ الدَّلْوَ إِلَى عَقْدِ الكَرَبْ
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