3 جاهضهُ جاهضه جاهضة , (K,) inf. n. جِهَاضٌ, (TA,) He endeavoured to prevent him, or to turn him away [from a thing]; and strove to be before him; syn. مَانَعَهُ and عَاجَلَهُ. (K.) Hence the saying, in a trad. of Mohammad Ibn-Meslemeh, relating his endeavouring to attack a man on the day of Ohod, فَجَاهَضَنِى عَنْهُ أَبُو سُفْيَانَ But Aboo-Sufyán endeavoured to turn me away from him (مَانَعَنِى عَنْهُ), and put me away [from him]. (TA.)
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