Pashto Proverbs

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• What is the Hindu dance but to open and close the hands.
  د هندوانو ګډيدل څه دي، موټي موټي نيول، موټي ړنګول
  Said in derision of the slow measured movements of legs and arms in the 'Nach'. A Pathan dance being all life, hands and feet flying about in all directions like Catherine wheels.
   

• Fire and water are in common, but not so with the Hindu
  اور اوبو سره شريک دي خو نه له هندوانو سره
  The Hindu draws his own water, and cooks and eats his food alone, both of which proceedings are considered to be comically stupid by a Pathan, who does the reverse, and likes society at all times.
   

• When a Hindu becomes bankrupt, he looks up his old account books.
  هندو چه ديواليه شي، نو زړي پوټي را واخلي
  To see whether there is any little outstanding item, which, with interest added, would not assist him in his difficulty.
   

• The Hindus cooking circle is purified with dung.
  د هندو چوکه د لدو په اخيړ پاکيږي
  The dung itself is stinking and unclean, yet the Hindu uses it as a purifier. Means that an unclean man, attempt what he may, cannot cleans himself.
   

• A Sikh's origin is his hair
  د سيکه اصل په ويښتو دي
  Meaning that any low fellow can become a Sikh if he lets his hair grow long.
   

• If a Wazir makes an attack, he will expose his naked back.
  وزير که منډ که خپله کونه به بر منډ که
  This is a Bannuchi proverb. A Wazir fights behind entrenchments, but not in the open; should he attempt to charge he will, according to the proverb, have to run away defeated.
   

• The threads of the cloth have concealed sense from the weaver.
  له جولانه عقل د نانړئي تارو پټ کړي دي
  Owing to their occupation keeping them at home, and their minds fixed on their threads, weavers are considered little better than idiots, and are, as a matter of fact, as a class, remarkably unintelligent.
   

• The use of the Hindu's loin-cloth is for cutting his person.
  د هندو چوتي د کوني څيرول دي
   

• One hundred Dawarh's (are not equal to) one stick.
  سل دوړ، د يوه لوړ
  Means that a man armed with a good cudgel would defeat one hundred of them. Like the Bannuchis, the Dawarh's are looked down upon by Marwats and Wazirs.
   

• The Jadrans, (Zadran) the hill wolves, bring a fine on Bannu.
  جدران د غره ليوان، په بنو راوړي تاوان
  The Zadrans or Jadrans, inhabitants of Shamal west of Khost (said to be Karlanis, though often called by us Ghiljis) come down in the cold months from their mountains to Bannu, where they work as navvies, and return in May with their earnings. They are splendid workmen and inveterate beggars, and are said to bring a fine on the country, owing to the amount of money they carry away with them to their houses, money honestly earned or begged, for they seldom if ever steal or rob.

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