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3 آربهُ آربه آربة , (S, A,) inf. n. مُؤَارَبَةٌ, (M, A,) He strove, or endeavoured, to outwit, deceive, beguile, or circumvent, him; syn. دَاهَاهُ. (S, M, * A. *) It is said in a trad., (TA,) مُؤَارَبَةُ الأَرِيبِ جَهْلٌ وَعَنَآءٌ [The striving to outwit the cunning, or intelligent, or sagacious, is ignorance, and labour without profit]: (A, TA:) i. e., the intelligent is not to be outwitted. (TA.) And آرب بِهِ signifies He practised an artifice, a stratagem, or a fraud, upon him. (TA, from a trad.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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