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Answer: Saleeg
💡 Saleeg is rice cooked in chicken broth, then milk is added and it is stirred until creamy; it is served with chicken and ghee.
Answer: In an underground pit heated with firewood and charcoal
💡 Mandi is cooked in a covered pit similar to a tandoor oven, so the meat cooks slowly over hot embers and takes on a smoky flavor.
Answer: Gursan
💡 Gursan bread is baked thin on a saj (griddle), then crumbled and soaked with meat and vegetable stew; this is what sets it apart from dishes where raw dough is cooked in the stew.
Answer: Margoog
💡 In margoog, sheets of raw dough are cooked right in the stew with vegetables like zucchini and squash, so they soak up its flavor.
Answer: Harees
💡 Harees is one of the oldest traditional dishes; it needs long, slow cooking and then mashing until the wheat and meat blend together.
Answer: Kabsa
💡 Kabsa is one of Saudi Arabia's most famous dishes; the rice is cooked in meat or chicken broth with spices until it soaks up the flavor.
Answer: Zari
💡 Zari is shiny thread sewn along the edges of the bisht and around its neck; the finer the embroidery, the more valuable the bisht.
Answer: Thobe
💡 The thobe is men's everyday clothing in Saudi Arabia; it is usually white in summer and in darker colors in winter.
Answer: Secrecy
💡 "Al-jahr" means showing something openly and saying it aloud, and its opposite is secrecy and concealment. Publicness and announcement mean the same as al-jahr.
Answer: True ✔
💡 "Al-adim" means skin, and "adim al-ard" is the surface of the earth and what can be seen of it; people also say "adim al-sama'," meaning what can be seen of the sky.
Answer: Rain
💡 "Al-ghayth" means rain, especially rain that comes after a time of need and relieves people and the land; from it comes the saying: "The first of the rain is a drop."
Answer: Betrayal
💡 "Al-wafa'" means keeping a promise and fulfilling it, and its opposite is "al-ghadr," meaning betrayal, breaking a promise. Honesty and trustworthiness are sisters of loyalty, not its opposites.
Answer: Generous
💡 "Al-shahih" is a miser who clings to his money, and its opposite is "sakhi," the generous person. "Bakhil" (miserly) means the same as shahih.
Answer: Praise
💡 "Al-dhamm" means mentioning faults, and its opposite is "al-madh," meaning praise and mentioning good qualities. "Al-hija'," on the other hand, is dispraise in poetry (satire).
Answer: Weakness
💡 "Al-wahn" means weakness in work or body; people say "wahana al-'azm," meaning the bones grew weak.
Answer: False ✖
💡 "Al-asil" is the time from after Asr until Maghrib (late afternoon), while early morning is called "al-bukrah" or "al-ghadah."
Answer: False ✖
💡 "Al-wabil" is heavy rain with big drops, while light rain is called "al-tall" or "al-radhadh" (drizzle).
Answer: Annulled (naqada)
💡 "Abrama al-'aqd" means he made the contract firm and binding, and its opposite is "naqada," meaning he annulled and dissolved it.
Answer: Childhood, then Youth, then Middle age, then Old age
💡 A person goes through childhood, then youth, then middle age (kuhulah), which comes after youth and before being fully gray-haired, then old age.
Answer: Asleep
💡 "Al-yaqzan" means someone awake and alert, and its opposite is asleep. "Alert" and "aware" mean the same as yaqzan.
