جاهر

[Its verbal noun] مُجَاهَرَةٌ signifies The fighting [with any one] face to face: and the showing open enmity, or hostility, with any one: and the reading, or reciting, a thing aloud: and the speaking loudly. (KL.) You say, جاهر بِالعَدَاوَةِ, (Msb,) verbal noun مُجَاهَرَةٌ (S, Msb) and جِهَارٌ, (Msb,) He showed open enmity or hostility, with another. (S, * Msb.) And جَاهَرْتُهُمْ بِالأَمْرِ I acted openly with them in the affair, or case; synonym عَالَنْتُهُمْ بِهِ. (JK.) [And جاهرهُ He treated him openly with enmity &c.]

جَاهَرَهُمْ بِالأَمْرِ, (TA,) verbal noun مُجَاهَرَةٌ and جِهَارٌ, (K,) [is explained as signifying] He vied with them, or strove to overcome or surpass them, in the affair, or case. (K, * TA.) [But غالبهم, in the TA, and المُغَالَبَةُ, in the K, are here evidently mistranscriptions for عَالَنَهُمْ and المُعَالَنَةُ.]