تَنَاجَشfake bidding in Arabic

Example sentences

• وفي رواية لا تحاسدوا، ولا تباغضوا، ولا تجسسوا، ولا تحسسوا ولا تناجشوا وكونوا عباد الله إخوانًا

  And in a version: 'Do not envy, do not hate, do not spy, do not look for faults, do not artificially raise bids, and be, O servants of Allah, brothers.'

  تَنَاجَشُوا — artificially raise bids. A plural mutual-pattern verb naming the trick of driving up a price with no intent to buy, with 'you all' in the form. The prohibition holds it in the jussive ending that marks it as something not to be done.

  From: Avoid Envy and Suspicion →