اربهُ

, (S, A,) verbal noun مُوءَارَبَةٌ, (M, A,) He strove, or endeavoured, to outwit, deceive, beguile, or circumvent, him; synonym دَاهَاهُ. (S, M, * A. *) It is said in a tradition, (TA,) مُوءَارَبَةُ الأَرِيبِ جَهْلٌ وَعَنَاءٌ [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 ارب بِهِ signifies He practised an artifice, a stratagem, or a fraud, upon him. (TA, from a tradition)