proverbes in english and arabic

Rhyming Proverbs

• تيتي تيتي مثل ما رحتي جيتي
  
  • Literal meaning: titi titi, just as you went you came.
• من برة إشيّ إشيّ ومن جوة خرق محشي
  
  • Literal meaning: from outside "wow, wow" and from inside it's stuffed with rags.
  • Metaphorical meaning: it looks good from the outside but it's actually not.
• الهزيمة تحل العزيمة
  
  • A debacle demolishes the will.
• قد أعذر من أنذر
• وقعت الفاس في الراس
• يبني قصراً ويهدم مصراً
  
  • He builds a castle by demolishing a country (Egypt).
• يا مأمنة بالرجال ، متل ياللي مأمنة بالمي في الغربال
  
  • O! my sister that depend on men; you are believing in water in a sieve.
• ياما تحت السواهي دواهي
  
  • Often, under the unseeing hide the cunning.
• يعمل من الحبة قُبَّةً

He makes a dome out of a grain. Meaning: He worries about a small problem as if it is a big one.

• اليوم خمر وغدا أمر
  
  • Today is wine, and tomorrow is an assignment. Today we will drink wine, and tomorrow we will work hard.
  • Today wine, tomorrow is another problem. Tonight is for drinking and tomorrow we will see what the matter is.
  • This is an historical word it's context is a man drinking with his guest and then come the news that his father was killed by the father of his guest, his friends ask him to kill his guest as a vengeance act but he reply "Today is is wine and tomorrow I ll act". Because Arabic culture give a very big importance to respect and well treat guest
• يوم لنا ويوم علينا
  
  • One day is for us, and the other is against us.
• A mouth that praises and a hand that kills.

قلوبهم معك و سيوفهم عليك

• A bite from a lion is better the look of envy.

عضة أسد و لا نظرة حسد

• In hurry you'll be sorry, in being careful you'll be safe.
  
  • في العجلة الندامة وفي التأني السلامة
• Advice in a crowd is a scandal.
  
  • النصيحة في الجهر فضيحة
  • اقلب الجرة على فمها تطلع البنت لامها
• O! my sister close thy door, and enough what happened to you.
• سبع صنايع والبخت ضايع
  
  • Seven trades but no luck.
• بكرة بنقعد على الحيطة وبنسمع الزيطة
  
  • Tomorrow we sit by the wall and here it all.
• العلم في الصغر كالنقش في الحجر
  
  • What is learned in youth is carved in stone.
• أعزب دهر ولا أرمل شهر
  
  • Literal meaning: Better be single all your life than be a widow for a month.
• أكلوا خيري وعصوا أمري
  
  • Literal meaning:
• إلى حتفي مَشَتْ قدمي
  
  • Literal meaning: My feet took me to my death.
• إذا أنت أمير و أنا أمير مين بيسوق الحمير
• أكل الهدية وكسر الزبدية
• الباب الذي يأتيك بالريح سده واسترح
  
  • Close the door from which the wind blows and relax.
• حط راسك بين هالروس و قول يا قطاع الروس
  
  • put your head between these heads and shout cut our heads off.
  • Meaning "Would you do whatever anyone else is doing even if it means your life?" (like the English proverb if your friend jumped from a bridge would you).
• حظ في السحاب وعقل في التراب
  
  • Luck in the sky and brains in the ground.
• عند الامتحان يكرم المرء أو يهان
• غاب حولين وجاء بِخُفَّيْ حنين
• غابت السباع ولعبت الضباع
• زرع آباؤنا فأكلنا ونزرع ليأكل أبناؤنا
  
  • Our parents planted so we ate, and we plant for our children to eat.
• السيف يقطع بحده المرء يسعى بجده
• شعيرنا ولا قمح غيرنا
• العلم في الصِّغَرِ كالنقش على الحجر
• في التأني السلامة وفي العجلة الندامة
• كلام كالعسل ووغزٌ كالأسل
• لا تطلقن القول في غير بصر إن اللسان غير مأمون الضرر
• لا تكن رطبا فَتُعْصَرَ ولا يابسا فتكسر
• لا في العير ولا في النفير
• لسانك حصانك إن صنته صانك، وإن هنته هانك
  
  • Your tongue is your horse— if you take care of it, it takes care of you; if you betray it, betray it will.
• ما طار طير وارتفع إلا كما طار وقع
  
  • Meaning: The higher the bird flies, lower it will fall. Also, What goes up must come down.
• من تَدَخَّلَ فيما لا يعنيه لقي ما لا يرضيه
• غيري يأكل الدجاج وأنا أقع في السياج
• الضحك بلا سبب من قلة الأدب
  
  • Laughing for no reason is rude.
• سكت دهرا ونطق كفرا
• الجنة بدون ناس لا تُداس
  
  • Paradise without people is not worth living in.
• آخر العنقود سكر معقود
  
  • Literal meaning: The end of the grape cluster. (Youngest child in a family)
• إذا عُرِفَ السبب بطل العجب
  
  • Literal meaning: When the reason is known, there will be no more wonder. (Said when you are wondering why something happened and then find out.)
• إذا فرغ الفؤاد ذهب الرقاد
  
  • Literal meaning: If the heart is empty, the rest will soon abandon you too.
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  • The following is a list of Parallelism in the Arabic language
    
    • اجلس حيث يُؤْخَذُ بيدك وَتُبَرُّ ولا تجلس حيث يؤخذ برجلك وتُجَرُّ
      
      • Literal meaning: Sit where your hand is taken and good is done to you, and don't sit where you are held by your leg and dragged.
      • Metaphoric meaning: Be where you are welcome and avoid where you are not welcome.
    • احذروا من لا يرجى خيره ولا يؤمن شره
      
      • Literal meaning: Beware of him whose goodness you don't hope for and whose evil you can't be safe from.
      • Metaphoric meaning: none.
    • إذا كان الكلام من فضة فالسكوت من ذهب
      
      • Literal meaning: If talk is made of silver then silence is made of gold.
      • Metaphoric meaning: listen more than you talk.
    • إذا كنت سنداناً فاصبر وإذا كنت مطرقة فأوجع
      
      • Literal meaning: If you were an anvil be patient, if you were a hammer be hard.
      • Metaphoric meaning: if you are unlucky and there is nothing you can do about it, don't complain; if you are lucky, don't hold back.
    • أسد عليَّ وفي الحروب نعامة
      
      • Literal meaning: A lion on me and an ostrich in war.
      • Metaphoric meaning: He pretends to be brave when there is no danger but he is a coward when there is.
      • Use: to express that someone is pretending to be what he is not.
    • إصلاح الموجود خير من انتظار المفقود
      
      • Literal meaning: Fixing what you have is better than waiting to get what you don't have.
      • Metaphoric meaning: none.
    • الإمارة حلوة الرضاع مُرَّةُ الفطام
      
      • Literal meaning: Lordship/command is sweet in nursing and bitter in weaning.
      • Metaphoric meaning: when someone becomes in charge, he does not want to quit.
    • ابنك على ما ربيتيه و جوزك على ما عودتيه
      
      • Literal meaning: you son is the way you raised him and your husband is the way you accustomed him.
      • Metaphoric meaning: it's your fault really because you didn't change what you could have changed.
      • Use: to encourage someone not to allow people to "walk all over them".
    • القرش الأبيض ينفع في اليوم الأسود
      
      • The white penny will become useful in your dark days.
    • قليل في الجيب خير من كثير في الغيب
    • لا تمازح الشريف فيحنق عليك ولا الدنيء فيتجرأ عليك
    • اخطب لابنتك ولا تخطب لابنك
      
      • Literal meaning: Work for the engagement of your daughter, but don't work for the engagement of your son.
    • إذا تكلمت بالكلمة ملكتك وإذا لم تتكلم بها ملكتها
      
      • Literal meaning: If you speak the word it shall own you, and if you don't you shall own it.

اقتباس:

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titi titi, just as you went you came

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titi titi !!! for real ! were did you get this from ? a book !!?x

اقتباس:

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from outside "wow, wow" and from inside it's stuffed

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now come on, you cant say "wow, wow" !! ... i don't think
that these sayings are usebal in every day life specially
with foreigners , but thanx anyway : ) x

ja

I think some of them are just Jokes

but really you did hard work. thanx a lot