Pashto Proverbs

پشتو متلونه

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• A Shias ablution is not nullified by his passing of wind.
  د شيعه اودس په ټيز نه ماتيږي
  Such an accident renders a Sunni unclean, consequently, when it occurs, he has to perform his ablutions over again before he can pray. The meaning is that nothing will put a shameless man to blush.
   

• A hill man is no man
  د غره سړي، نه سړي

  By the dwellers in the plains he is looked on as a wild beast.
   

• Don't class 'Sargarai' as grass, nor a hill man as a human being.
  سر ګړي په وشکي مه ګنړه، د غره سړي په سړي مه ګنړه
   

• The drum was beating in the plain, and the Bettani was dancing on the hill.
  ډول په سمه واهه شه او بيټني په غره کښي ورته ګډيدل
  This is a Marwat saying, about the stupidity of their hill neighbours.
   

• The Pathan eats his enemy, the Hindu his friend.
  پښتون دښمن خوري او هندو سجنړ خوري
  A Pathan thinks a Hindus love of money is so great, that to gain a rupee he would cheat his own father or mother if he could.
   

• Peshawar flour won't be without 'Jwar', a Kabul woman won't be without a lover.
  د پيښور اوړه به بې جواره نه وي، او د کابل ښځه به بې ياره نه وي
  Peshawar flour is said to be generally adulterated, I do not know whether there is any truth in the assertion or not. The latter part of the proverb is well known to be true, and is mentioned in Burnes in his "Cabool"
   

• Don't trust the Moghul's letters. Of the Mughals first letters, than armies.
  باور مه کړه د مغل په کاغزونو، د مغل اول کاغز، بسې فوزونه
   

• What is in deposit with a Hindu, is in a grain safe
  چه په هندو شې، په کندو شې
  It is pleasant to find one proverb even in praise of a Hindu, and here the praise is well deserved.
   

• One hundred Bettanis eat one hundred sheep.
  سل بيټنو سل پسونه اوخړل
  Said of men or families whose domestic economy is badly regulated, the Bettanis being very bad managers in household concerns.
   

• Get round a Pathan by softy coaxing him, but take up a clod for a Hindkai.
  پښتون ورو ورو غولوه، هندکي ته لوټه څيروه
  That is, with a little reconciliation, not bullying, a Pathan will agree to anything, but a Hindkai requires the reverse treatment. If in Hindkais we include the degenerate Pathans settled in Isa Khel and Mianwali, as well as all the miscellaneous Jatt classes, the methods here laid down for working the two classes deserve attention, owing to their truth

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