Jan 14, 2009 03:41
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English term

hide and seek

English to Arabic Social Sciences Poetry & Literature Children games
I have done some researchs before asking this question, and I am expecting from you is your anwer from your actual childhood experence, what do you call this game “ hide and seek” in Arabic while you were actually playing it with your childhood friends.

Please note that the difference between “hide and seek” and “ blindman’s buff”, covering the eyes of the seeker or not, the former one is “no”, the latter one is “yes”. Based on this understanding. I believe these two words " الغميضة /or " الإستغماية", Both of them are for “blindman’s buff”.

Would you please help me with your actual childhood experience to find the accurate Arabic name for this game? Please don’t try to do researches as I did on the internet or look it up in dictionaries, what I need from you is your actual childhood experiences.

Additionally, I realized that there was a similar question asked previously, but I think they didn't distinguish the difference between the two games "hide and seek" and "blindman's buff". http://www.proz.com/kudoz/english_to_arabic/games_video_game...

Thanks in advance

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Hide and seek is a game played by children in which one or more children hide and another child searches for them. In its simplest form, the "seeker" will give the "hiders" some fixed amount of time to scatter throughout the playing area and find hiding spots, and then begin searching; the last hider to remain unfound is considered the winner. There are a number of common variations on this pattern, including one in which hiders may defeat the seeker by reaching the seeker's starting point without being seen or tagged; those who reach it successfully are "home free," but must take the risk of leaving their hiding spot and being more easily found.

http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/hide an...

Discussion

lhcm (asker) Jan 19, 2009:
thanks to all of you I think all of you are relatively correct. Considering that the system only allows the asker to choose one of the answers. The quickest answer is selected to close the question. Thanks again.
Nadia Ayoub Jan 14, 2009:
It is definitely استغماية as Sam and Mohamed suggest. As for Blindman's Bluff, I remember we used to call it القطة العمية I think that was in Egypt but might have been in Lebanon where I spent part of my childhood.
lhcm (asker) Jan 14, 2009:
examples when you are suggesting such Arabic word is for " hide and seek", would you please let us know as well which Arabic word you use for "blindman's buff". because my understand is that the two words either "غميضة" or "استغماية" is for "blindman's buff", not for "hide and seek". please read the definition of this game in my post. many Thankssssss !
lhcm (asker) Jan 14, 2009:
To all dear answerers please bear in mind: "hide and seek" and "blindman's buff" are two different games, and this discussion is based on this. It is more appreviated if you can clarify your answer with the explaination of your understanding in this regard.
Sam Berner Jan 14, 2009:
I am not aware of "blindman's bluff" being played in Egypt or Sudan.. we played "hide and seek" only.
lhcm (asker) Jan 14, 2009:
thanks so much to all of you for your quick response. While you are giving your answer, do you have another Arabic word for "blindman's buff"to distinguish it from the game " hide and seek"? or in reality, Arab they don't distinguish between these two games at all?

Proposed translations

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السودان ومصر: الاستغماية

Played it as a kid.. One of us would stand against the wall with eyes closed and sing a ditty (Can't remember the words) then count to ten and everyone else would have by then be hidden from view.
Peer comment(s):

agree Mohamed Ghazal : The ditty strated with 10, 20, 30... 100... lil bit less here, but in the same boat :-)
1 min
Thanks for reminding me, Sheikh Ghazal. It was about 40 years ago :-)
agree Mahmoud Rayyan
2 hrs
agree Nadia Ayoub : Yes this is استغماية and we played it exactly like this. The other game is. The other game is القطة العمية and we did play it:)
7 hrs
agree Ghada Samir : Yes, we miss those days:))
10 hrs
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7 mins

الاستغماية

It was still called that in Egypt. At least when I was a kid.
Peer comment(s):

agree Sam Berner
8 mins
Thanks
agree Mahmoud Rayyan
2 hrs
Thanks
agree Ghada Samir : Exactly:-))
10 hrs
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23 mins

خشّـيشوّة

This is from Qatif, Saudi Arabia, where "blindman’s buff" is not played by children, but only "hide and seek."

Pre-schoolers (from toddlers to kindergarten) go for it, and they all seem to play it with the same spirit evoked by Robert Frost in "Revleation":

And so with all, from babes that play
At hide and seek to God afar,
So all who hide too well away
must speak and tell us where they are.

The word is from the verb خشّ, which means "to hide" (transitive) and انخش, which means "to hide" (intransitive).

This is different from (but may be related to) the verb خشّ used in Egypt and the Hijaz, which means "to enter."
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8 mins

لعبة الغميضة

This is what we used to call it :)

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Note added at 3 hrs (2009-01-14 06:55:55 GMT)
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I think it's only Hide and seek, we don't have the blindman’s buff game.
Peer comment(s):

agree zkt : In the Levant yes!
1 hr
agree Mahmoud Rayyan
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1 day 21 hrs

طميمة

As far as I know, this is how we used to call it in Syria, Damascus.
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2 days 20 hrs

في المغرب نسميها الغميضة أو غميض البيض

في المغرب نسميها الغميضة أو غميض البيض

how funny! lol
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