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3 جاراهُ جار جاراه جاراة جارى , inf. n. مُجَارَاةٌ (S, Mgh, Msb, K) and جِرَآءٌ, (S, K,) He ran with him. (S, Mgh, Msb, K.) You say, جَارَيْتُهُ حَتَّى فُتُّهُ I ran with him until I passed beyond him, or outwent him. (TA in art. فوت.) ― -b2- [He vied, contended, or competed, with him in running: and hence, (assumed tropical:) in any affair; like سَايَرَهُ.] You say, جاراهُ فِى كَذَا وَفَعَلَ مِثْلَ فِعْلِهِ (assumed tropical:) [He vied, contended, or competed, with him in such an affair, and did like as he did]. (Mgh in art. فوض.) And جاراهُ فِى الحَدِيثِ (assumed tropical:) [He vied, contended, or competed, with him in discourse]. (S.) And جَارَوْا فِى الحَدِيثِ (TA) and ↓ تَجَارَوْا فِيهِ (S, TA) (assumed tropical:) [They vied, contended, or competed, one with another, in discourse]. And it is said in a trad., مَنْ طَلَبَ العِلْمَ لِيُجَارِىَ بِهِ العُلَمَآءَ (assumed tropical:) He who seeks knowledge in order that he may run [i. e. vie] with the learned in discussion and disputation, to show his knowledge to others, to be seen and heard. (TA.) And in another trad., لَا تُجَارِ أَخَاكَ وَلَا تُشَارِهِ وَلَا تُمَارِهِ (assumed tropical:) [Contend not for superiority with thy brother, (so explained in the TA, voce جَارَّ, in art. جر,) nor dispute with him, nor wrangle with him]: (El-Jámi'-es- Sagheer:) or, as some relate it, لَا تُجَارِّ أَخَاكَ وَلَا تُشَارِّهِ. (TA in art. جر, q. v.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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