Persian: برتر بودن

[Ali Smith]

سلام

My textbook defines the Arabic word برع in the following way:

برع بہ فتح وضم راء در لغت بہ معنای برتر بودن شخصی بر غیرش در علم و غیر علم است


Does bartar budan mean "to be superior"?

My translation: برع with a fathe and a zamme on the raa in language (لغت) means "for a person to be superior to someone else in knowledge or something other than knowledge".

I'm quite surprised the author didn't use the Persian word zabaan and chose loghat instead.

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[PersoLatin]

Does bartar budan mean "to be superior"?

بر means “up, high” so برتر means upper/higher, برتر بودن means “to be better” so the answer is yes it can also mean "to be superior".

برتر بودن شخصی بر غیرش در علم و غیر علم است

To be superior to others (someone else) in knowledge/science and otherwise