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مُذَارَعَةٌ

Root: ذرع

Form: 3

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مُذَارَعَةٌIII signifies The selling by measure with the cubit; not by number, and without knowing the measure. [In the CK, والجُزافُ is put by mistake for والجُزافِ.] You say, بِعْتُهُ الثَّوْبَ مُذَارَعَةٌ I sold to him the garment, or piece of cloth, by measure with the cubit.
2 See also 1, in two places.
3 ذَرَاعْتُهُ, Verbal.Noun مُذَارَعَةٌ, I mixed with him in familiar, or social, intercourse; or became intimate with him: or I became copartner with him; or shared with him: syn. خَالَطْتُهُ.
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