• 2017 both legal riddles: 119–56  and verse riddles have enjoyed growing attention. Riddles are known in Arabic principally as lughz (Arabic: لُغز) (pl. alghāz...
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    Rumpelstiltskin Riddles (Anglo-Saxon) Riddles (Arabic) Riddles (Chinese) Riddles (Finnic) Riddles (Greek) Riddles (Hebrew) Riddles (Persian) Riddle joke Charades...
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  • However, the Arabic loan-word lughaz is also used. Traditional Persian rhetorical manuals almost always handle riddles, but Persian riddles have enjoyed...
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  • Uḥjiyyat al-ʿArab (category Riddles)
    substantial collection of Arabic riddles, thought to have been influential on later Arabic verse riddlers, and perhaps on Arabic ekphrastic poetry more widely...
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    riddlers especially have produced long variations on the theme, often overlapping with riddles on pens and other writing equipment. Literary riddles have...
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    sources'. Year-riddles are numbered 984, 1037 and 1038 in Archer Taylor's English Riddles from Oral Tradition. As a folktale motif, the riddle is motif H721...
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    large corpus of roughly contemporary, poetic Arabic riddles. The riddles are in the wāfir metre.: 142  Riddles plausibly attributed to Dunash are known to...
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  • and their riddles." In Proverbs 30:15, in which sets of three or four objects are mentioned were likely originally in the form of riddles. In Ezekiel...
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  • Arabic poetry (Arabic: الشعر العربي ash-shi‘r al-‘arabīyy) is one of the earliest forms of Arabic literature. Pre-Islamic Arabic poetry contains the bulk...
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    many playful riddles, but songs and legends which have been a part of popular culture in South Asia ever since. Additionally, his riddles and songs and...
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