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3 جادع جادع , inf. n. مُجَادَعَةٌ (S, K) and جِدَاعٌ (K,) (tropical:) He reviled, being reviled by another, (K, * TA,) saying جَدْعًا لَكَ; as though each of them cut off the nose of the other: (TA:) and, (K,) or accord. to some, (TA,) (tropical:) he contended in an altercation; as also ↓ تجادع ; (S, K, TA;) [but the latter is said of a number of persons &c.] You say, أَفَاعِيهَا ↓ تَرَكْتُ البِلَادَ تَجَادَعُ , (Th, S,) and ↓ تَجَدَّعُ also, (Th,) (tropical:) I left the countries with their vipers eating one another; (Th, S;) not meaning eating in reality, but rending in pieces, or mangling, one another: (Th:) and أَفَاعِيهَا ↓ عَامٌ تَجَدَّعُ , and ↓ تَجَادَعُ , (tropical:) A year in which the vipers eat one another, by reason of its severity. (Th.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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