Pashto Proverbs

پشتو متلونه

Topic: Friendship - ملګرتيا

The tone pervading most of the following is in general pure and elevated, and has a decidedly English ring about it. A man is not to be hasty in forming his friendships, but being formed, he is to hold his friend's honour as his own, and be willing to make any sacrifices for him, for "a world in purchase for a friend is gain." The distinction between true, luke-warm, and false friends is pointed out, and an occasional sly hit is dealt at the not altogether disinterested affection of relations, especially cousins and brothers, for each other. - S.S. Thorburn [Bannu - Our Afghan Frontier]

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• Make a friend; test him for a year: if he be proof, embrace him cordially; if not, cut his acquaintance
  يار نيسه، تر کاله ئي نيسه؛ که برابر شه، غېږ ورته نيسه؛ او که نه شه، ځان ځېني نيسه
  Polonius, in Hamlet, gives his son Laertes much the same advice in the lines beginning, "The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul."
   

• Who forms a low friendship will light a fire on his own forehead
  چې بې زاته آشنائي کړه، اور به بل په خپل تندي کړه
  That his, will harm himself..
   

• Pass by your acquaintance in the street; forget his appearance
  يار په کوڅه تېر کړه، رنګ ئې هير کړه
  That is, do so when it is to your advantage to drop his acquaintance.
   

• Friends are serpents, they bit; Strangers are best, friends deceive
  ياران ماران دي خوړل کوي؛ نا آشنا ښه دي، آشنا ټګل کړي
  The false friend is here referred to.
   

• Mayest thou be damned O Blanket! which art neither for wind nor for rain
  ورک شې کمبلې چې نه د باد ئې نه د باران
  The lukewarm friend is here spoken of.
   

• Give good words to others, but good food to your friend
  ښه قصه بل ته کوه، ښه خواړه خپل ته ور کوه
  Be civil to all, but keep your substance for friends and relations
   

• Let a man have a dear friend, though he be in a foreign country
  يار دې وي، په بل ديار دې وي
   

• A son is the heart, a brother the eye's pupil, a grandson the bone's marrow
  ځوئې زړه دې؛ ورور ليمه دې؛ نمسې د هډ مازغه دې
  This gives the three degrees of affection
   

• A son is from the heart, wealth from the liver; Wealth is dearer than a son
  ځوئې له زړه، دنيا له پرينه؛ تر ځوئ لا دنيا شرينه
   

• Who speaks of his friend, speaks of himself
  چې د يار وائي، له ځان وائي
  A man's friends are reflections of himself. "Tell me with whom you go, and I'll tell you what you are."

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