«كِيدِ النِّسَا غَلَبْ كِيدِ الرِّجَالْ»

The proverb claims that when men and women match wits through plotting, the woman's guile wins. Here kayd means scheming, cunning, and crafty trickery, not neutral intelligence. It voices a folk belief that treats female craftiness as a force no male scheme can overcome, warning a man who thinks he has outwitted a woman that he will likely lose.

Beyond its surface claim, the line works as a stock verdict after a tale of trickery in which a woman gets the upper hand. It packages a gendered stereotype casting women as inherently scheming into a compact rhyming formula, voiced with admiration, grudging respect, or suspicion. It reports a popular conviction, not a neutral observation about women.

Fits narratives or remarks where a woman's clever plan outmaneuvers a man's, sometimes with wry or teasing resignation. The saying relies on a gendered stereotype rather than a reliable account of women or men.