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ABLAH Folk
Game
Pictures by: Zamzam Al Hashemi

Number of players: seven or more girls Bert Alqmriah game
Way of playing:It is a popular group game played by girls.
It begins with a certain number of players gathering and Number of players:
sitting in a circle. Then two girls come out of the circle to the seven or more girls
inside of the circle in the middle while holding each other’s
hands and doing circular movements and chanting lyrical
words: Bert Alqmriah. Then the rest of the girls chant a few
words with applause, saying: “Buchah” while rising their
hands. Every time two girls do the same thing until the
circle is ended and so on in turn. Then all the girls stand and
move in a circular motion.Bert al-Qamariya....Buchah*wa
men talaaha ..Bchah..Talaat almatleeha ...Buchah *wa laqiit
rariiha ..Bchah...Rariti alhamra.. Bochah *wa asbha rasi..
Bchah ..Rasi majlasi ..Bochah *masqool belahli.. Bochah..
Wa madhoon belyasi ..Bochah..haia gaya hila.. Bochah..
Sayahoo narjeela.. Bochah *fouq alghashab zanjabeela
..Bchah..Taghdah ya oud almasyla…Bochah *Atshanaaha
mahad saqaha.. Bochah..Washari mahad badaha..Bochah
*wa eyen gashaha bukaha .. Bchah..Wa deniya hadhi sharha.

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