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3 مُجَايَأَةٌ ذ [inf. n. of جَايَأَ] signifies The act of facing, or fronting; being opposite, or over against: (IAar, K:) and the act of coinciding; as also جِيَآءٌ. (AZ, K.) You say of a man, جَايَأَنِى مِنْ قُرْبٍ He faced me, fronted me, was opposite to me, or was over against me, at a short distance. (TA.) And مَرَّ بِى مُجَايَأَةً He passed by me being in front, or opposite. (TA.) And جَايَأْتُ فُلَانًا I coincided with such a one in his coming. (TA.) And لَوْ جَاوَزْتَ هٰذَا المَكَانَ لَجَايَأْتَ الغَيْثَ Hadst thou passed beyond this place, thou hadst met with rain, or coincided with rain in its coming. (TA.) ― -b2- ↓ جَاآنِى فَجِئْتُهُ , [so in copies of the S, and in copies of the K, as from the S, but in the TA, as from the S, جَآءَأَنِى, and said to be with two hemzehs, though this is evidently wrong,] aor. أَجِيْؤُهُ, the former verb of the measure فَاعَلَنِى, (S,) is [said to be] a mistake for جَايَأَنِى فجئته, since the former verb has an infirm letter [ى] for its medial radical and ' for its final, not the reverse, (Sgh, K,) [therefore] what J says is not allowable unless it be an instance of transposition; (IB, TA;) but what is given by F [and Sgh as the correct form] is that which is accord. to rule, and what J says is that which has been heard from the Arabs, as ISd has pointed out; (TA;) [and rule is not to be regarded when it is contr. to classical usage;] the meaning is, He vied with me, or strove to surpass me, in frequency of coming, and I surpassed him therein. (S, K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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