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كجج

Root entry · 2 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns a children's game involving spinning a piece of pottery or cloth, akin to playing with a top or ball. It also describes the act of playing this game.

Derived headwords

الكُجَّةnoun
  1. 1.
    Children's gameclassical

    A game played by children, specifically involving spinning a piece of pottery (like a shard) or cloth, making it resemble a ball or top, and gambling over it.

كُجَّverb
  1. 1.
    to play (a game)classical

    To play the game of 'kujjah', which involves spinning an object like a shard or cloth.

وكج الصبي — And the boy played (the game of kujjah)

Parallel reading

اللعبة للصبيان
A game for boys.
هو أن يأخذ الصبي خزفة فيدورها ويجعلها كأنها كرة ثم يتقامرون بها
It is that a boy takes a pottery shard, spins it, and makes it like a ball, then they gamble over it.
وكج الصبي
And the boy played (the game of kujjah).
في كل شيء قمار حتى في لعب الصبيان بالكجة
In everything there is gambling, even in the playing of the boys with the kujjah.
وتسمى هذه اللعبة في الحضر باسمين
And this game is called by two names in the cities.
الخرقة يقال لها التون
The rag is called al-tun.
والآجرة يقال لها البكسة
And the brick (shard) is called al-baksah.