Pashto Proverbs

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Topic: Friendship - ملګرتيا

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• If rain falls on you, drops will fall on me
  که په تا باران وشي، په ما به څاڅکي پرېوزي
  That is, a man's good fortune is that of his friends.
   

• Who loves, labours.
  چې ياري کوي، هغه خواري کوي
  Said originally of love, but in a wider sense of friendship.
   

• One doubt your love for me? No one has arrested Aba Sind ("father of waters, i.e., the Indus") with great dams.
  څوک چې ستا په مينې کښۍ و مــا ته که پندونه
  نـــــــه دې چــــــا نيولي ابـــــاسيند پــه لوې بندونه
  Used to express unlimited trust.
   

• Be intimate with a thief; take care of your ox.
  له غله سره پالي لره، خو خپل لنډي خوندي لره
  Meaning he will steal it if he can, friend though he may be; for a vicious man cannot be cured of his evil ways.
   

• Some one said to the woman, "Your lover is dead." She said, "Of which street?"
  لوئې ته چا ويل چې يار دې مړ شو، ويل ئې چې د کومې کوڅې؟
  Who is everybody's friend, is nobody's true friend.
   

• Brotherly love is all very well, but let there be some sort of account kept
  وروري وروري خو حساب له ميانه
   

• Until there be a rattle in the grain safe, there is no use in going and coming.
  په تله را تله نه شي، څو درز د څټي نه شي
  That is, there is no object in intercourse until one or both can benefit from it.
   

• I sweep the doorsteps of the Daramsal for my friend
  د يار له پاره ځه درمسال جاړو کؤم
  Daramsal is referred to as a Hindu Temple. The friend in his devotion says he can even sweep the doorsteps of it
   

• The affection showed be a donkey is a kick
  خره مينه لګته وي

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