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 mirṣāʿ”
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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”