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Topics
Begging
Boasting
Bravery
Class & Local
Co-Operation
Cowardice
Custom
Death
Enmity
Family
Fate
Friendship
God
Good Looks
Good & Bad Luck
Goodness & Wickedness
Haste & Deliberation
Home
Honor & Shame
Husbandry, Weather & Health
Ignorance & Foolishness
Joy & Sorrow
Knowledge
Labor
Lying
Liberality & Parsimony
Man's Justice
Old Age
Poverty
Pride, Self Conceit, Lame Excuses
Selfishness & Ingratitude
Strength
Wealth
Women
Un-classed, Ethical, Miscellaneous
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Proverb References
Rohi Mataluna
by Mohammad Nawaz Taer
Pashto Academy, Peshawar University, 1957.
This book
contains about 5400 proverbs from alphabetically classified lists.
Amsal Aw Hekam
by Enayatullah Shahrani,
Ministry of Culture & information, Bayhaqi book Printing
Company, Kabul, 1975.
This book contains about 3700 proverbs.
Pakhto Mataloona
booklet by Dr. Abrar S. Ahmad |
Pashto Proverbs
پشتو متلونه
Topic: Enmity -
دشمني
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Lending is the seed of enmity
پور د بدي تخم دې
So we say, "He that doth lend doth lose a friend."
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The family, in which there is an informer, becomes scattered
چه څرګ ئي له کوره
وي، خو نه ئي خوره وي
The nearest approach to this, which occurs to me, is "It is an
ill bird that soils its own nest"
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That man will be your bane who enters not into your thoughts
چه نه دې وي په
خوا، هغه تا ته شي بلا
An enemy springs up against a man from a quarter where he
least expected one
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Keep a cousin poor, but use him
تربور خوار لره، خو
په کار ئي لره
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