Riddles

Riddles

RIDDLE
Stereotyped expressions inviting in a hidden manner the identification a living thing, object or religious theme by means of association.

Examples of riddles:

It looks red and purple
Sits and sells beans.
I asked how much a kilo would cost
It looks me brightly in the face.
(A FROG)

I saw a strange thing,
The world klnows its name,
It rubs its head and kills its body.
(A MATCH)

I have a long, long string.
(A YEAR)

It gives 30 measures of grapes a year.
(RAMADAN)

It is a sin to eat in the light.
(FASTING AT RAMADAN)

It is acceptable to eat in the black.
(RAMADAN NIGHT)

I have a bagful of walnuts I can never finish counting.
(A STAR)

A tongue in the mouth,
Tell me if you are wise.
(A SHEPHERD’S PAN-PIPES)

I was rushes on the mountain
A gentleman with a horse tail on his head.
I came home and got married
And got all tied up.
(A BROOM)

It comes from the mountain like a snail
It has arms like short branches
It bends and drinks water
And bellows like a young goat.
(AN OX CART)

The hand sows it, and the tongue reaps.
(WRITING)

It crosses the mountains with no shadow.
(A TONGUE)

God created it beautiful
On a green branch.
Its edge is like the leaf of a book,
And its middle is gold-leafed.
(A ROSE)

Two brothers grew up together
Their tops burned, their heads burned
They are the ones who were beaten.
They threw themselves into the sea
But it was only water.
(COFFEE)

A woman moans
In a dark place
(A BEE)

Red but not an apple
In layers but not puff pastry.
(AN ONION)

Half a crescent in the void.
(THE MOON)

I have a well, and two kinds of water.
(AN EGG)

Its wool is red, and its hat green.
(A CHERRY)

An open window in the sky, a polished saucepan
(THE MOON)

Its bottom a lake, its top a rose.
(AN OIL LAMP)

A deep well, roaring water
He who drinks or it dies
(A RIFLE)

It falls into the bushes without a sound.
(THE SUN)

With two columns and a thousand tiles.
(A CHICKEN)

A tiny milestone,
It moves over mountains.
(AN EYE)

I have a son with many layers of clothing.
(AN ONION)

I said whoosh
I said shoosh,
Go there,
Lie down.
(A BROOM)

I looked from afar like a whie stone
And came to your side like rice pudding.
(A MUSHROOM)]

It shone on the door
Like a pomegranate.
(A LOCK)

It was us, us, us,
Thirty-two maidens.
The breakers came and broke us up,
Now we are back in order again.
(TEETH)

It is yellow like saffron, can be read like the Qur’an,
Either you will guess it, or you will die tonight.
(GOLD)