hide and seek

Arabic translation: السودان ومصر: الاستغماية

03:41 Jan 14, 2009

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English term or phrase: hide and seek

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...

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Arabic translation:السودان ومصر: الاستغماية

Explanation:
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.

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Sam Berner
Australia
Local time: 18:38

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5 +4

السودان ومصر: الاستغماية

Sam Berner

4 +3

الاستغماية

Mohamed Ghazal

4 +2

لعبة الغميضة

Bayan Taleb

خشّـيشوّة

Fuad Yahya

طميمة

A Nabil Bouitieh

في المغرب نسميها الغميضة أو غميض البيض

Tarik Boussetta

Discussion entries: 6

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6 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +4

السودان ومصر: الاستغماية

Sam Berner
Australia
Local time: 18:38
Native speaker of:

Arabic,

English
PRO pts in category: 4

7 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

الاستغماية

Explanation:
It was still called that in Egypt. At least when I was a kid.

Mohamed Ghazal
United Arab Emirates
Local time: 12:38
Native speaker of:

Arabic
PRO pts in category: 52

23 mins confidence:

خشّـيشوّة

Explanation:
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."

Fuad Yahya
Native speaker of:

Arabic,

English
PRO pts in category: 90

8 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

لعبة الغميضة

Explanation:
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.

Bayan Taleb
Canada
Local time: 02:38
Native speaker of:

Arabic
PRO pts in category: 4

1 day 21 hrs confidence:

طميمة

Explanation:
As far as I know, this is how we used to call it in Syria, Damascus.

A Nabil Bouitieh
United Kingdom
Local time: 09:38
Native speaker of:

Arabic

2 days 20 hrs confidence:

في المغرب نسميها الغميضة أو غميض البيض

Explanation:
في المغرب نسميها الغميضة أو غميض البيض

how funny! lol

Tarik Boussetta
Local time: 09:38
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Arabic
PRO pts in category: 12

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