English▸ noun a heated argument or disagreement, typically about a trivial issue and between people who are usually on good term:
she made the mistake of picking a quarrel with John.
▪ [usually with negative] a reason for disagreement with a person, group, or principle:
we have no quarrel with the people of the country, only with the dictator.
▸ verb
(quarrels, quarreling, quarreled; British quarrels, quarrelling, quarrelled)
[no object] have a heated argument or disagreement: stop quarreling with your sister.
▪ (quarrel with) take exception to or disagree with (something):
some people quarrel with this approach.
– ORIGIN Middle English (in the sense ‘reason for disagreement with a person’): from Old French querele, from Latin querel(l)a ‘complaint’, from queri ‘complain’.