Ahmad al-Shidyaq - Leg over Leg - Volumes One and Two

or zuḥlūfah ,

“the sliding of children from the top of a mound to its bottom”

or ʿayāf ,

“ ʿayāf and ṭarīdah are two games they play”

or qāṣṣah qirfāṣah ,

“a game they play”

or ḥuzuqqah ,

“a kind of pastime”

or dabbūq ,

“a game”

or a zuḥlūqah ,

“a swing”

or shafalaqqah ,

“a game consisting of striking a person from behind and then throwing him to the ground”

or ʿafqah ,

“a game”

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or a ʿuqqah ,

“such as children play with” 590

or qirq ,

“a pastime of the frivolous”

or kurrak ,

“a game they play”

or dibbā ḥajal ,

“a game”

or dukhayliyāʾ ,

“a game they play”

or diraqlah ,

“a children’s game”

or diraklah ,

“a game played by non-Arabs, or a kind of dance; or it may be Ethiopian”

or fiʾāl ,

“a children’s game consisting of hiding something in the dirt and then dividing the dirt into parts and saying, ‘Which part is it in?’”

or fiyāl ,

“a game played by Arab youths”

or dummah ,

“a game”

or a duwwāmah ,

[the “spinning top”] “that children play with, making it revolve; also called mirṣā ʿ”

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or marghamah ,

“a game they play”

or shaḥmah ,

“a game they play”

or ʿaẓm Waḍḍāḥ ,

“a game they play”

or mihzām ,

“a stick on top of which fire is placed and which they play with”

or barṭanah ,

“a kind of diversion, also pronounced barṭamah ”

or a tūn ,

“a piece of cloth that they play with, like the kujjah ”

or ṭuban ,

“a game they play”

or qinnīn ,

“a game played by the Greeks on which they gamble”

or kubnah ,

“a game”

or damah ,

“a children’s game”

or a mijdhāʾ ,

“a round piece of wood with which the Arabs of the desert play”

or mikhāsāh ,

“to play mikhāsāh with someone is to play with him at walnuts, saying ‘Odd or even?’”

or quzzah ,

“a game”

or qullah ,

“two sticks that children play with”

he would open wide his mouth in a rictus and yell yet louder and more noisily, saying “A woman! A woman! Give me a woman to play with!” and if you charmed his ear with

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a rabāb ,

[“rebec, spike-fiddle”] “too well known to require definition”

or a ʿarṭabah ,

“a lute, or a tambour, or drums, or the drums of the Ethiopians”

or a kūbah ,

“a lute, or a small goblet drum”

or a dirrīj ,

“a thing like a tambour that is played”

or ṣanj ,

“a thing made out of brass, one piece of which is struck against the other, or a stringed instrument that is played (an Arabized non-Arab word); the sound made by the ṣanj is referred to as ṣiyār ”

or wanaj ,

“playing on strings or a lute or any musical instrument”

or ʿūd ,

[“lute”] “too well known to require definition”

or mizmār ,

“what is blown on as though it were a reed; also called zamkhar or zanbaq or ṣulbūb or naqīb or qaṣṣābah or hubnūqah ”

or a mizhar ,

“the ʿūd (‘lute’) on which one plays” 591

or a shabbūr ,

“a trumpet, also called qabʿ or quthʿ or qunʿ or ṣūr ”

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or a ṭunbūr ,

[“tambour”] “too well known to require definition”

or kannārāt ,

“lutes, or large tambourines, or drums, or the tambour”

or a kūs ,

“a drum”

or a barbaṭ ,

“a lute”

or a shiyāʿ ,

“a shepherd’s pipe”

or a hayraʿah ,

“a reed on which a shepherd blows”

or a duff ,

[“large tambourine”] “too well known to require definition”

or a mustuqah ,

“an instrument with which cymbals and the like are struck”

or a ʿarkal ,

“a drum or a tambourine”

or a ṣaghānah ,

“a musical instrument (Arabized)”

or a ṭubn ,

“a tambour or a lute”

or a qinnīn ,

“a tambour”

or a kirān ,

“a lute or the ṣanj ”

or wann ,

“the ṣanj ”

he would remain open-mouthed, crying out and saying, “A woman! A woman! Will you not charm me with a woman?” and if you were to feed him with

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jūdhāb ,

“a dish made of sugar, rice, and meat”

or qabīb ,

“moist and dry curds mixed together”

or kabāb ,

[“kebabs”] “too well known to require definition”

or sannūt ,

“butter, or cheese, or honey, 592or a kind of date”

or lafītah ,

“thickened wheat gruel, or a broth resembling ḥays ” 593

or nafītah ,

“a dish thicker than sakhīnah ”

or ʿulāthah ,

“clarified butter and curds mixed together”

or ghabīthah ,

“curds kneaded with clarified butter; synonym ʿabīthah ”

or sikbāj ,

[“meat cooked in vinegar”] “too well known to require definition”

or ṭubāhajah ,

“sliced meat”

or nābijah ,

“a dish of the Days of Barbarism”

or akhīkhah ,

“flour made with clarified butter or oil”

or qafīkhah ,

“a dish made with dates and drippings”

or kāmikh ,

“pickles”

or tharīd ,

[“crumbled bread moistened with broth”] “too well known to require definition”

or rashīdiyyah ,

“a well-known dish; in Persian rishtah (‘noodles’)”

or rahīdah ,

“pounded wheat over which milk is poured”

or shahīdah ,

“grilled lamb”

or qadīd ,

“jerked, sun-dried meat”

or ḥanīdh ,

“ ḥanadha l-shāh means ‘he grilled the ewe by placing on top of it heated stones to cook it’; the result is called ḥanīdh ”

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or zumāward ,

“a dish of eggs and meat, also called muyassar ”

or barābīr ,

“a dish made of parched ears of wheat and fresh milk”

or būrāniyyah ,

“a dish attributed to Būrān, daughter of al-ḥasan ibn Sahl, the wife of al-Maʾmūn” 594

or jāshiriyyah ,

“a dish”

or jaʿājir ,

“whatever is made of dough, such as figurines, that they then place in inspissated fruit juice and cook”

or ḥarīrah ,

“flour cooked with milk or fat”

or ḥakr ,

“clarified butter with honey that children lick”

or makhbūr ,

fatty dishes or 595“ khubrah , or tharīdah ḍakhmah (‘great tharīdah ’). . or food generally, or meat, or the part of a thing that is offered, or food that a traveler takes with him on his journey, or a large wooden bowl containing bread and meat for between four and five persons”