خَرِيجٌ

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خَرِيجٌ and خَرَاجٌ and تَخْرِيجٌ A certain game, played by the Arab youths, in which they say خَرَاجِ : accord. to ISk, you say, الصِّبْيَانُ لَعِبَ [The boys played at خراج], with kesr to the ج: Fr says, خراج is the name of a well-known game of the Arabs, in which one of the players holds a thing in his hand and says to the others, Elicit ye (أَخْرِجُوا) what is in my hand: in the T, خراج and خريج are explained by the word مُخَارَجَةٌ [meaning micare digitis; and hence it appears that the game thus termed, accord. to the T, is the morra, a game common in ancient and modern Italy, and in very remote times in Egypt, in which one of the players puts forth some, or all, of his fingers, and another is required to name instantly the number put forth, or to do the same]; and it is there added, that it is A game of the Arab youths: Aboo-Dhueyb El-Hudhalee says, أَزِقَتْ لَهُ ذَاتَ العِشَآءِ كَأَنَّهُ مَخَارِيقُ يُدْعَى تَحْتَهُنَّ خَرِيجُ I was sleepless in consequence of it, at nightfall, as though it were kerchiefs twisted for the purpose of beating with them, under which was uttered the cry خريج; likening the thunder to the cry of the players: but Aboo-'Alee says that خريج [thus used] is incorrect; that he should have said , but that the rhyme required him to say خريج.

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