وارب

, verbal noun مُوَارَبَةٌ He strove to outwit, deceive, beguile, or circumvent [another]: synonym دَاهَى and خَاتَلَ. (K.) Accord. to IAth, it is from الوَرَبُ “ the being corrupt: ” or it may be from الارب “ intelligence, &c.; ” the أ being changed into و. The latter is the opinion of AM. (L.)

One of the sages says, مُوَارَبَةُ الأَرِيبِ جَهْلٌ وَعَنَاءٌ [The striving to outwit the cunning, or intelligent, or sagacious, is ignorance and labour without profit]. (TA.) [See article أرب, where this saying, but with موءاربة in the place of مواربة, is given as a tradition]

It is said in a tradition, إِنْ بَايَعْتَهُمْ وَارَبُوكَ, i. e., خَادَعُوكَ, If thou buy and sell with them, they will deceive thee, or endeavour to deceive the. (IAth.)