Proverbs and sayings Azerbaijan 2017

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Proverbs and sayings Of

Azerbaijan (Northwestern area in Iran)

Shahrooz Pourhossein

2017

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‫آ‬ ‫ بیری یاتار بیری گالخار‬،‫آباد اوالسان خلخال‬ Literal Meaning: May you be prosperous Khalkhal! One sleeps, the other wakes up (Khalkhal; a city is Azerbaijan). It refers to a crowded city where the neighborhoods are too noisy at night and one neighbor is always awake to make noise. It is used to refer to a situation where problems rise one after another. ‫آبرى باهار گؤى اوتو دییر کى گئنه گؤیه ره‬ Literal Meaning: reputation is not spring lawn to grow again. One’s reputation and name is so fragile that it is hard to be repaired after being damaged in the eyes of the public En: A good name is sooner lost than won ‫ چال چاتالسین وور پاتالسین‬،‫ اوزگنین‬...‫ گ‬،‫آت اوزگنین‬ Literal Meaning: it is other’s horse and other’s ass, so beat it to shatter. People handle the property or belongings of others with less care ‫ ییهسی مات اوالر‬،‫آت آت اولونجان‬ Literal Meaning: until the foal becomes a horse, its owner dies. It takes long time and energy to get the fruit of an investment. ‫آت آلمامیش آخئر چکیر‬ Literal Meaning: s/he is building stable before buying horse. First, one should achieve the main goal and then get busy with side requirements En: Catch the bear before you sell his skin En: Never fry a fish till it's caught ‫آتا اوت ایته اَت وئرماخ‬ Literal Meaning: to give the meat to horse and grass to dog. One should not mix up the way things and people should be handled. ‫ میدان اوالندا آت اولماز‬،‫آت اوالندا میدان اولماز‬

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Literal Meaning: when there is horse, there is no field, when there is field, there is no horse. In order to fulfill a goal, one should not expect all conditions to be prepared. There is always a shortcoming. En: He that will not when he may, when he will he shall have nay ‫آتالئخ ائتمک چتیندیر‬، ‫آتا اولماخ آساندی‬ Literal Meaning: to become father is easy, but to be a father is hard. To become father is easy but to fulfill the duties and responsibilities of fatherhood is too difficult. ‫ ار ائوینده قایئن آنا‬،‫آتا ائوینده ائوگی آنا‬ Literal Meaning: at father’s house, step mother, at husband’s house mother-in-law. There is always something or someone to spoil the peace of life. ‫آتا آنا رشوه سیز دوست دوالر‬ Literal Meaning: parents are friends with no bribe. parents love their children without any expectation ‫آتا چاتاناجاخ اشّکه مین‬ Literal Meaning: ride donkey until you can afford horse. Until you can achieve a better position, you should be content with less-desirable conditions ‫آتا دوغرایب باالیئیر‬ Literal Meaning: father is slicing and child is eating. En: like father, like son ‫ گوردالر یییر‬،‫آتا سیندان قاباغا دوشن توالنی‬ Literal Meaning: the puppy walking ahead the father, is eaten by wolf Better to benefit from parents advice and not decide alone in serious situations ‫ اونا گوره خرج ایله‬،‫آتا مالین درج ایله‬ Literal Meaning: write the heritage of father and then spend according to it. The wealth left as heritage gets finished quickly, so it must be spent carefully

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‫آد قازان‬، ‫آتا مین‬ Literal Meaning: ride horse and become famous Wealth brings fame ‫ آت دان دوشمه نین مین عیبی وار‬،‫آتا مینمه نین بیر عیبی وار‬ Literal Meaning: there is little shame in riding horse but much shame in falling from it. losing the wealth causes a lot of humiliation in the eyes of public ‫آتاسئن دونقوز قاپمیش اوغلونو ایالن چالمیش‬ Literal Meaning: the father was bitten by hog, the son was bitten by snake. A father with bad luck will have a son with bad luck. En: A miserly father makes a prodigal son. Like fathers, like sons ‫آتاسئنا خیری اولمایان کیمه خئییری اوالر؟‬ Literal Meaning: to whom may be good, the one who was not good even to his own father? The one who is not good to his own blood will not be good to others ‫آتاالر سوزو حکمتدیر‬ Literal Meaning: fathers’ sayings are wisdom. One should listen to fathers’ sayings as they bear wisdom ‫آتاالر سوزو عاغلئن گُزو‬ Literal Meaning: fathers’ saying is the eye of wisdom. One should listen to fathers’ sayings as they bear wisdom ‫آتاالر سوزونه محاکیمه اولماز‬ Literal Meaning: one can’t blame fathers for their advice. One can’t accuse or blame fathers for advising their children ‫اوزوم ایله اوزونو دئه‬، ‫آتام ایله آتانی دئینجه‬ Literal Meaning: rather than talking about my father and your father, let’s talk about yourself and myself. It is not important who our fathers were or what they did, important is who we are and what we do. ‫اریم ائوینده تویوق آشی‬، ‫آتام ائوینده با لیق باشی‬

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Literal Meaning: Fish head in father’s house, chicken soup in husband’s house. Women are usually better off in their husband’s house, in comparison to their father’s house. ‫آتام آتام من بو ایشه ماتام‬ Literal Meaning: Oh father, father, I am stunned at this work. To show astonishment at something ‫ تکجه سنی توتموشام‬،‫آتامی آنامی آتمیشام‬ Literal Meaning: I have left my father and mother and just have held you. I love you (my wife) more than my parents ‫آتان اوخ قایئتماز‬ Literal Meaning: the thrown arrow never comes back. The lost chances never come back ‫آتان بیلیجی دی سنه نه‬ Literal Meaning: what is that to you if your father was a prudent man? important is to be proud of your own art not your father ‫ اوزون نجه اولدون گول بسر؟‬،‫آتان سوغان آنان ساریمساق‬ Literal Meaning: your father was onion, your mother was garlic, and how did you become cucumber? One should not deny his /her origin by pretending to be someone totally different. ‫آتانئن دعاسی آنانین آهی‬ Literal Meaning: father’s good prayer, mother’s curse. Parents’ good prayer and curse affects our life. ‫آتئالن دوشه ر‬ Literal Meaning: the one who jumps, falls. Every work has its own consequences. A highly ambitious person loses finally. ‫آتی آت یانینا باغالسان همرنگ اولماسا هم خوی اوالر‬

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Literal Meaning: if you held the horses beside each other, if they would not get each other’s color, they would get the each other’s temper. People who socialize with each other, influence each other’s behavior ‫ داش دا یییر‬٬‫آج آدام‬ Literal Meaning: a hungry person eats stone. hungry man eats anything to survive En: Hunger breaks stone walls ‫آج تویوخ یاتار یوخودا داری گورر‬ Literal Meaning: hungry hen sleeps and dreams millet. A hungry person dreams of the things s/he does not have ‫ آجی آیران‬، ‫آج قارین‬ Literal Meaning: hungry stomach, bitter Ayran. To give empty promises to someone who is in need ‫آجا مییت حالل دیر‬ Literal Meaning: for hungry person, it is Halal to eat corpse. Hunger justifies eating anything even the corpse ‫آجئن قارنی دویار گوزی دویماز‬ Literal Meaning: a hungry one’s stomach gets full but his/her eyes does not get satisfied. There is no end for human greed ‫آجئن ایمانی اولماز‬ Literal Meaning: hungry person has no faith. The severity of hunger never lets you think about spirituality and faith. En: A hungry belly has no ears ‫آچاخ صاندئقی توکاخ پامبغی‬ Literal Meaning: let’s open the box and pull out the cotton. To talk about the secrets ‫آچئلمامئش سفرا نین عیبی اولماز‬ Literal Meaning: the tablecloth which has not been spread has no fault. An undone task is perfect because its faults are not yet seen. En: He that never climbed never fell

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‫ آچلن سفره نو مین بی‬٫‫آچئلما میش سفره نین بیر عیبی وار‬ Literal Meaning: the spread table cloth has one fault, the one not spread has no fault. An undone task is perfect but when done the faults appear. En: The higher the ape goes, the more he shows his tail He that never climbed never fell ‫آخار سو یولونی تاپار‬ Literal Meaning: flowing water finds its way. A person who tries finally finds a way ‫ آخار سوالر قورویار‬،‫آخار سویا گئدسه‬ Literal Meaning: if s/he goes to flowing waters, they suddenly dry up. En: An unfortunate man would be drowned in a teacup ‫آختاران تاپار یاتان یوخودا گورر‬ Literal Meaning: the one who searches, finds, the one who sleeps, finds it in dreams. Only those who work hard, achieve what they want ‫آخماغ اودی بو دنیا دا غم یییه کیم نه بولور کیم گازانا کیم یییه‬ Literal Meaning: stupid is the one who is sad in this world, who know who will earn and who will eat. En: One beats the bush, and another catches the bird ‫ یاخشی گوله ر‬،‫آخیرده گولن‬ Literal Meaning: the one who laughs at the end, laughs better. En: He laughs best who laughs last ‫ بیری ده گمینن گلدی‬،‫آدادا قورد آز ایدی‬ Literal Meaning: there were few wolves in the island, here came another with ship. Troubles follow one another ‫آدام افطار اُلمامئئش اروجون آشماز‬ Literal Meaning: one must not break his/her fast before Iftar. One should not be jumpy in judgments. ‫ ساتاندا دییر‬، ‫آدام آالندا گازانار‬ Literal Meaning: One should win when one buys not when one sells

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A good investment is when you buy by making right choice ‫ بیری بزکدی دوققوزی دوندی‬، ‫آدام اُندی‬ Literal Meaning: man is ten, one is makeup, and nine is dress. It is the appearance of human which counts. En: Good clothes open all doors Clothes make the man ‫آدام اومدوغو یئردن کوسر‬ Literal Meaning: one gets broken-hearted from where s/he had pinned hope on. We get disappointed and feel hurt by the people on whom we pin hope ‫آدام بیر آجییاندا اوزون ساخالر بیرده جیجینده‬ Literal Meaning: one should control him/herself on two occasions: when one gets angry and when one feels jealous. Control yourself when you are jealous or anger. ‫آدام بیلمیر هانچی سازیینَن ا وُیناسئن‬ Literal Meaning: one never knows with which instrument (musical) of his/hers to dance To be confused by the frequently-changing decisions of a shaky person. ‫آدام چوخ بولر آز دانئشار‬ Literal Meaning: man might know a lot, but s/he should talk less. It is better to be silent. En: All truths are not to be told ‫آدام مین آجینی اودار بیر شیرینین خاطرینه‬ Literal Meaning: one should bear thousands of bitters for the sake of one sweetness. One should tolerate thousands of difficulties in order to achieve one goal ‫آدام مین دفعه اُلچر بیر دفعه بیچر‬ Literal Meaning: measure thousands of time, cut once. One must evaluate and think a lot before saying something or doing something.

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En: Measure twice and cut once First think, then speak ‫آدام وار که آدامالرین نقشیدور آدام وار که اِشک اوندان یاخشیدور‬ Literal Meaning: There is one who only looks like human, there is one, before him/her, and donkey is more valuable. There are so many people who are called human apparently but their character is even worse than an animal ‫ باشئنا گله ر‬،‫آدام هر نه دن گورخسا‬ Literal Meaning: whatever you are afraid of, finds you. We are usually faced and challenged by the things we are afraid of ‫آداما سوزی بیر یول دییر لر‬ Literal Meaning: human is said the word only once. Human needs only one note to understand. En: A word is enough to the wise. ‫آداملئقی آدامنان ایسته خوش اییی قئزل گولدن‬ Literal Meaning: ask for humanity from human and the good smell from Damask rose. Human being is expected to have humane behavior and character ‫آدامی پالتارینان تانیمازالر‬ Literal Meaning: man is not known by its cloths. It is not the appearance of the human being which counts. ‫آدامی تانیین یرده گورتالر یسین‬ Literal Meaning: May the wolves eat you where you have some friends. One is more successful where one has many friends and contacts ‫ گازانی کوز‬، ‫آدامی سوز یاندرار‬ Literal Meaning: fire heats the pot and gossip burns the human. Bitter words burn human like the way fire heats pot. ‫ ائله اودور‬٬‫آدامئن آنینا هر نمه یازمئشالر‬ Literal Meaning: human’s fate will be only whatever has been written on his/her forehead.

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No flying from fate ‫آدامئن آدی چئخاناجاخ جانی چئخسن‬

Literal Meaning: better to die than have ill name. To have ill name is worse than dying. En: He that has an ill name is half-hanged. Give a dog a bad name and hang him ‫آدامئن اون دانا یییجی سی اولسون بیر دانا دیییجی سی اولماسئن‬ Literal Meaning: better to have thousands of people eating from your pocket but not one gossiping behind your back. The gossips behind somebody’s back destroys one’s life ‫ یو موشانسان یوموشانسان‬،‫آدون ندیر داش دمیر‬ Literal Meaning: what is your name? “Iron!”, you will be softened! You will be softened! Even the most stubborn people become flexible someday. ‫آدی منیم دادی سنین‬ Literal Meaning: literally it was mine but you enjoyed it. Some people work hard but finally but others benefit from their efforts. ‫ آدین که اُلدی ی آتمیش یا او یاندا یاتمیش یا‬،‫آدین که اُولدی اَللی یرون اُلدی بَللی‬ ‫بویاندا یاتمیش‬ Literal Meaning: when your name becomes fifty, your place becomes known, when your name becomes sixty, it no more matters if you sleep either in this world, or in the other world. The more we age, the closer we get to death ‫آدین که اولدی دگیرمانچی چاغیر گلسین دن کوروغلی‬ Literal Meaning: you Koroglu! When you become miller, you must call: flour. When you accept the responsibility of doing something, then do it completely. ‫ بیرین ائشیت‬،‫ بیرین دئه‬،‫آدئن ندی رشید‬ Literal Meaning: what is your name? : Rashid, so talk once and listen once

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A mature person both talks and listens ‫آرا خلوت تولکی بیگ‬ Literal meaning: the situation is calm and the fox is lord. When there is no good one to lead, usually a bad person becomes leader. ‫آرالیق آتی کور فاتی‬ Literal meaning: newsmonger horse, blind Fatima A newsmonger woman who goes from house to house and gossips. ‫آرالیق سوزی او یاخار‬ Literal meaning: The words of a newsmonger ruins house. The gossips made by a newsmonger woman ruins people’s life. ‫آرا گاریشیب مذهب ایتیب‬ Literal meaning: The middle is mixed and the religion is lost. The maximum point of chaos. ‫آراندا خرمادان اولدوم ییالقدا بوغدادان‬ Literal meaning: I missed the date in upland, and missed wheat in mountain pasture. I could not get benefit from either side. ‫ بوغدا درمه ز‬٬‫آرپا اکه ن‬ Literal meaning: The one who sows barley, can’t reap wheat. En: As you sow so shall you reap. ‫آز دانئش ناز دانئش‬ Literal Meaning: talk little but nice. It is always better to talk little and rationally. ‫آز گل قیزیم ناز گل قیزیم‬ Literal Meaning: my daughter! Pay visit rarely to be valuable. Paying frequent visits to parents is not welcome. En: hedge between keeps friendship green. ‫ آغرئماز باشئم‬، ‫آزاجئق آشئم‬ Literal Meaning: my little soup, my trouble-free head. The more the wealth, the more the trouble. En: Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn us.

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‫آز یه ئوزووه نوکر توت‬ Literal Meaning: eat less and employ a servant for yourself. Do your own job yourself and don’t order others. ‫آژلئخ بو گاپئدان گیرسه ایمان اوبور گاپئدان چئخار‬ Literal Meaning: if hunger enters from one door, faith leaves from another door. There is room either for hunger or spirituality. ‫ اوستا دانئش‬،‫آستا دانئش‬ Literal Meaning: talk slowly, talk sensibly. Better to talk slowly and sensibly. En: Be swift to hear, slow to speak. ‫آستا گئده ن یورولماز‬ Literal Meaning: that who goes slow, never gets tired. That who lives life without haste, never gets tired. En: Slow and steady wins the race. Slow but sure ‫آستانا دئیشیر بخت دئیشمز‬ Literal Meaning: one may change house (partner), but one can’t change destiny. Changing your husband (partner) won’t change your destiny that is why they (partners) will all be like each other. ‫ یوخاریدا یئری یوخدو‬، ‫آشاغی دا ایلشمیر‬ Literal meaning: S/he can’t sit down here, but has no place up there either. A situation when one is not happy with what s/he is but can’t make progress too. ‫آش دی آشئن ایسپناغی‬ Literal meaning: What makes the Ash, Ash, is its spinach. It is spinach which makes the Ash (soup) tasty. ‫آشئن پیشیرماخ‬ Literal Meaning: to cook someone’s soup (vegetable soup). To make a great trouble for some body/ to frame somebody.

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‫آسالنین ائرکک دیشی سی اولماز‬ Literal meaning: It does not matter if it is lion or lioness. A dangerous human is dangerous no matter a woman or a man. ‫آغاج بار گتیردیکجه باش اَیر‬ Literal Meaning: the more fruitful the tree, the lower its head. The more knowledgeable, the more humble. ‫آغاجی ایچیندن قورد یئیهر‬ Literal Meaning: the tree is eaten by the worm inside. People get damage from their own closest ones (family) ‫آغانئن مالی چئخاندا نوکرین جانی چئخار‬ Literal Meaning: when the lord’s wealth is spent, the steward’s soul is out. The steward is much stingier to spend his lord’s money than the lord himself. ‫آغریمایان باشا دسمال باغالمازالر‬ Literal Meaning: don’t wrap cloth round the head which is not aching. Don’t look for trouble if you already don’t have one ‫آغئر اوتی باتمان گل‬ Literal Meaning: sit heavy, come in baatmaan (unit of measuring weight) be prudent and don’t mix up with others’ problem. ‫آغرییان دیشی چکرلر‬ Literal Meaning: the aching teeth should be taken out. Someone or something troublesome should be removed and eradicated ‫آغزونداقان اولسا توپورمه‬ Literal Meaning: don’t spit even if your mouth is full of blood. Don’t say your secrets to anybody even if you curl in pain. ‫آغزوندان یئللر آلسین‬ Literal Meaning: May the wind take it from your mouth. May God not hear the bad will in your words. ‫آغزوندان سوت ایئی گلیر‬

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Literal Meaning: your mouth is smelling of milk. You are still very inexperienced ‫آغئزالردا ساققئز اولماخ‬ Literal Meaning: to be the chewing gum for others’ mouth. To have one’s life story and secret as a popular story for others daily life. ‫آغزووا باخ تیکه کس‬ Literal Meaning: look at your mouth and then make a morsel. Act according to your real abilities and facilities. En: Stretch your legs according to the coverlet ‫آغزئندا مرجیمک ایسالتماماخ‬ Literal Meaning: not to moisturize lentil in his/her mouth. Not to be able to keep secrets ‫آغین آدی وار قره نین دادی‬ Literal Meaning: white has fame, black has taste White people are famous for beauty but people with darker skin are more cute and lovely. ‫آل ایتدن معروف اولماخ‬ Literal Meaning: to be more famous than white dog. To be very famous ‫آلتداکی داش دوروب اوسته کی داش دورمور‬ Literal meaning: The nether millstone stops, the upper millstone can’t stop. Someone in real pain is silent, but someone with less pain keeps nagging. ‫آلچاخدا دایان که چیخاسان باشا‬ Literal Meaning: Wait in low place in order to reach top. In order to reach higher positions, one should start from lower positions !‫آلچا یئمییه نین آغزی سوالنار یئییه نین دیشی کال اوالر‬ Literal meaning: That who does not eat greengage, has her/his mouth watered, the one who eats, have his/her teeth blunted.

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En: The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence ‫ بیر باشا وور ماز‬، ‫آلاله ایکی قاپازی‬ Literal Meaning: God does not beat two sticks to one head. God never tries a person with two big misfortunes simultaneously. ‫ آیاخالرئنی قارنئنا سوخوب‬، ‫آلاله ایالنی تانییب‬ Literal Meaning: God knew the snake, which is why its legs are pushed inside its belly. It is the will of God that some people are not bestowed power. ‫ قویسون شانسئنئن اوستونه‬، ‫آلاله آدامئن عمروندن گؤتورسون‬ Literal Meaning: may the God take the years of one’s life and add to its luck. To be lucky is more worthy than having long life. En: Better be born lucky than rich ‫ هئچ کیم آچامماز‬، ‫آلاله باغالیان قاپئنی‬ Literal Meaning: No one can open the door that God has decided to close. No one can fight back against God’s will ‫ آیری قاپی آچار‬، ‫آلاله بیر قاپئنی باغالسا‬ Literal Meaning: if God closes a door, he opens another. God always opens a door ‫آلاله توتوپ پیغمبر ده عصاسینن وروپ‬ Literal Meaning: God has raged upon him/ her and prophet has beaten by his stick. A disastrous situation where all misfortunes find a person all at once ‫آلاله داغئنا باخار گار وئرر‬ Literal Meaning: God looks at the mountain and then gives snow. God blesses the people according to the extent they deserve. ‫آلالهدان اوزولمییه نه اؤلوم یوخ‬ Literal meaning: There is no death for someone who is still connected to God. Everything, events and destinies are all at the hands of God.

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‫آلاله دغل بازا پای ورمز‬ Literal Meaning: God does not bestow the sustenance to cunning person. En: Cheats never prosper ‫آلاله گارگا دییرکی گوز اویا‬ Literal Meaning: God is not a crow to dig your eye out. God’s justice is not implemented in way that people can see it, but it is implemented ‫آلاله قازاناندان آالر وئرهر بئجهرهنه‬ Literal Meaning: God takes money from the one who earns and gives to the one who is shrewd. No matter how hard we have worked to earn, our earnings are usually won by a shrewd one. ‫ بیریزی ده یوخ السین‬، ‫آلاله هامیزی بیر السین‬ Literal meaning: May the God make you all one, and then wiped out that one. A problematic situation from which one wishes to get rid of (especially problem with kids) ‫آلاله هش یاتانئن دالیسین اویاخ المسین‬ Literal meaning: May God never let an awake person be behind a sleeping one. May God never let a devious person ambush behind a negligent person. ‫آلئنمئش تاپئلمئش دئر‬ Literal Meaning: what is bought is found. Whatever we buy is a gain. ‫ قئراغئنا باخ بئزینی آل‬،‫آناسئنا باخ قئزئنی آل‬ Literal Meaning: look at the mother and marry the daughter (as wife) look at the margin of the fabric and buy it. A small part of something can be representative of the whole. ‫آند ایچیپ قان سئشماخ‬ Literal Meaning: to swear and shit blood.

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To swear from the deep bottom of heart. ‫آنالیان بیر تل دن آنالر‬ Literal Meaning: one single hair is enough for wise A small hints is enough for a wise person to understand. En: A word is enough to the wise. ‫آی منن اولسون بارماغیم اولدوزون گوتونه‬ Literal Meaning: May the moon be with me, let my finger be to the ass of star. Important is to have the support of the strongest person, no matter what weak opponents say or do. ‫آیی تلسسه ده آرمود وقتینده یئتیشر‬ Literal meaning: No matter if the bear is in hurry, the pear will be ripe when it is supposed to En: haste makes waste. ‫مئشه یه گیرمز‬،‫آیی دان گورخان‬ Literal meaning: That who is afraid of bear, never goes to bush. En: A cat in glove catches no flies A close mouth catches no flies

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‫الف‬ ‫اُت اُلمایان یردن دومان چئخماز‬ Literal Meaning: there is no smoke without fire. There is always a reason for whatever happens. En: There is no smoke without fire. ‫اَت قصابدان دا یئملی دی‬ Literal Meaning: butcher is more delicious than the meat. It refers to a situation where the person presenting someone or something is more attractive than the presented one. (It is usually used when one wants to say that the mother is more beautiful than daughter) ‫اَتَ وار مَتَ وار ایسی اُتا یوخدی؟‬ Literal Meaning: you have money for meat, but not for black pepper? You should be fair in distributing resources. ‫اَتی دئرناخدان آیئر ماغ اولماز‬ Literal Meaning: You can’t rip off the nail from its (bed) flesh. You can’t separate two people who are connected to each other by blood. ‫اَتینن دئرناغین آراسینا گیرمه‬ Literal Meaning: Don’t enter between the nail and its (bed) flesh Don’t try to separate two people who are connected to each other by blood. ‫اَتَیوی گُزا باخ گُر هاران گوروشور؟‬ Literal Meaning: raise you skirt and look what you see Keep your own secret because when it is given away your own reputation is damaged.

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‫احتیاط ایییدین یاراشئغی دئر‬ Literal Meaning: Precaution is the beauty of valiant. A young person with precaution is more respected. En: Caution is the parent of safety. ‫احتیاط عاغلئن شرطی دیر‬ Literal Meaning: Precaution is the sign of reason. Being precautious is being wise. En: Caution is the parent of safety. ‫احمق اُدی بو دنیا دا غم ییه کیم نه بولور کیم گازانا کیم ییه‬ Literal Meaning: stupid is the one who grieves in this world, who knows who will earn and who will eat. Don’t be sad for anything no one knows what will happen next. ‫اُد پارچاسی اولماخ‬ Literal Meaning: To be the fire flame. To be extremely shrewd. ‫اُدا گلمیسن سویا ؟‬ Literal Meaning: Are you here for fire or water? Are you here for holding peace or for fighting? ‫ادب بازاردا ساتیلماز‬ Literal Meaning: Politeness is not sold in market. Politeness is intrinsic. ‫اُدونان سو آراسیندا قالماخ‬ Literal Meaning: to stand between fire and water. To stand between two powerful people who are not ready to withdraw. ‫اُدونان سویا یالوارماق اولماز‬ Literal Meaning: one can’t beg the fire and water. There is no logic to implore the fire and water as they are strong natural powers. Metaphorically: you can’t justify two stubborn and strong people to draw back in a tiff and surrender. ‫اَر آخار چای دی آرواد سویون بندی‬

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Literal Meaning: Man is a running stream and his wife is the dam. Man and woman work together to build up life. ‫اُرتولو پازار دُسلوقو پُزار‬ Literal Meaning: concealed deal damages the friendship. To be frank is the requirement of a friendship, otherwise it gets spoiled. ‫ دئدی اوزوم اَیاخلیان‬:‫ارمنی یه دئدیلر شاهدین کیمدی‬ Literal Meaning: the Armenian was asked: who is your witness? S/he says: grape squeezer (wine maker). Refers to a situation where one’s witness is even worse than the person her/ himself ‫اَریم اولسون اِرمنی اولسون‬ Literal Meaning: I want a husband even Christian Having a partner (no matter who) is far better than being alone ‫اَراولسون اکبر اولسون‬ Literal Meaning: I want husband even Akbar. Having a partner (no matter who) is far better than being alone. ‫از قضای ربانی پیشیه یدی مربانی‬ Literal Meaning: as the result of divine will, the cat ate the jam. Refers to explain a situation where the thing which is hoped not to happen, happens. ‫ اؤزگه مالی آسالنیب‬، ‫اُز مالیم گؤرسن میر‬ Literal Meaning: my property is hidden, others’ property is hanging in the middle. Others’ property is for my use, but mine should be protected. ‫اُزگه آتینا مینن تز دوشر‬ Literal Meaning: That who rides other’s horse, falls down soon. The one who starts a job with debt fails very quickly. En: Better go to bed without supper than rise in debt. ‫اُزگه آدامین نامازین اُستورا اُستورا گئالر‬ Literal Meaning: others says prayers on your behalf while they fart.

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En: If you want a thing done well, do it yourself. ‫ن کورکن دورماخ‬.....‫اُزگه س‬ Literal Meaning: To be bridegroom with someone else’s p…s. To start a work or investment by counting on others’ capabilities and facilities. En: Better go to bed without supper than rise in debt ‫ائوزومون قشنگین چاققال یییر‬ Literal Meaning: Jackal eats the best grape. It is the most cunning person that has the best share of everything. ‫اُزی یئخئالن آغالماز‬ Literal Meaning: The one who falls himself, should not cry. we should not cry when the bad consequences of our own decision has damaged our life. ‫اُستوراخدان گولونجا نه وار؟‬ Literal Meaning: What is the relationship between farting and gripes? Don’t try to make connection between two basically irrelevant events or topics. "‫ دییرلر "گوتو یوخدی‬،‫اُستورانین قاباغئندا سئشماسان‬ Literal Meaning: If you did not shit before someone who farted before you, people would say “s/he did not have ass”. If you did not show a strong reaction to a bad deed done to you, people would consider you as coward. ‫اُستورماغی بس دگیل یل قاباغئندا دا دورور‬ Literal Meaning: Farting was not enough, on top of it, s/he stands in the wind. To defend a wrong deed ‫اُستوروپ آیئلماخ‬ Literal Meaning: To fart and wake up. To become wise after making mistake. En: Wise after the event. ‫اُستوروپ اُستوراغئندان کوسوپ‬

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Literal meaning: s/he has farted and sulks because of her/his own fart. A person who sulks even though s/he knows that s/he has made the mistake. ‫اششین کُرپودن گئچنه جاخ آیی یه دایی ده‬ Literal Meaning: Call the bear “uncle” until your donkey passes the bridge. Obey a strong person until you get your purpose. ‫ پاالنئ تاپدالئر‬, ‫ چاتمئر‬,‫اششیه گوجو‬ Literal Meaning: He can’t fight the donkey, he beats the saddle. To take revenge of weaker person when one can’t fight back the stronger one. ‫اِششیی پاالن ساخالر قشونی یاالن‬ Literal Meaning: Donkey is controlled by saddle, army is controlled by lie. For controlling the mass it is inevitable to tell lies. ‫ توربا تیکنجاخ‬، ‫ یونجام سارالما‬، ‫اِششییم ئولمه یونجا بیتنجاخ‬ Literal Meaning: Don’t die my donkey till the grass grows, don’t wither grass until I sew sack. To give empty promises to someone in need. ‫اِششک نه بیلر آرپا باهادی‬ Literal Meaning: Donkey does not know that barley is expensive. A negligent person never knows the value of things. ‫اِشیت اینانما‬ Literal Meaning: Listen but don’t believe. One should not believe what one hears. En: Believe not all that you see nor half what you hear. ‫اِشَیین گوالغئنا یاسین اُخوماخ‬ Literal Meaning: To read Yassin to the ears of donkey. To try to convince a stubborn person. ‫یاغ ایلنمز‬،‫اصل ایتمز‬ Literal Meaning: decency never disappears, oil never stinks.

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Someone from a descent origin never loses decency. ‫اُکوز گوجون بولسه چوبانا اگیلمز‬ Literal Meaning: Bull would not obey the shepherd if it knew its own power. One would not tolerate oppression if one knew his/her own power. ‫ گوی گوزو ئوز قیرمئزی توک ساریدن‬:‫الحذار اتمک گرک اوچ ذات دن‬ Literal Meaning: avoid people with three people: one with blue eyes, rosy cheeks, and blond hair. Avoid blond people (Refers to the allied forces which occupied Iran in second world war and created so much destructions) ‫ال الی یووار ال ده دونر اوی یووار‬ Literal meaning: hand washes the hand and the hand washes the face. Doing goodness should be mutual not one-sided. ‫الی باغلی اوالنین دوگنی چوخ اوالر‬ Literal meaning: The one whose hands are tied, is beaten by many. An alone, helpless and defenseless person is usually attacked by many. ‫ان بؤیوک بیژلئخ دوزلوخدور‬ Literal Meaning: The greatest craftiness is honesty. En: Honesty is the best policy. ‫ ایلده بیر دفعه گلر‬،‫اُو مَراغه باسلئغئدی‬ Literal Meaning: That is Basluq (a kind of sweet) from Maraqe (a town in Azerbaijan), and it comes once a year. It refers to a favorite opportunity which happens very rarely. ‫اُو یِماخالرین بو خئرئلداماخ الری دا وار‬ Literal Meaning: That eating has this grunting. The gains obtained by wrong way, has painful payback (Refers to the grunting noise of the fat sheep while being beheaded. ‫آدام آلتئندان سوز‬، ‫اُود آلتئندان کوز‬ Literal Meaning: Under pot it is fire, under human it is gossip. The ill talks behind one’s back is as burning as the fire on wood. ‫ اوزگه نین گوزونده توکو گورور‬، ‫اُوز گوزونده دیرَیی گورمور‬

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Literal Meaning: S/he does not see the stake in his own eye, but sees hair in others’ eye. Be fair with your judgments about others and see your own inadequacies as well. En: Sweep before your own door. ‫ یاخئن یئرین سامانی یاخشئ دئر‬، ‫اوزاخ یئرین آرپاسئندان‬ Literal Meaning: The grass of a near place is better than the barley of a distant place. The small but available opportunities are better than big but unreachable ones. En: A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow Never quit certainty for hope One today is worth two tomorrow ‫ ایچی تَزَکلی‬، ‫اُوزو بَزَکلی‬ Literal Meaning: outside is ornamented, inside is full of manure. Those who have decorated outside might have ill inside. En: A fair face may hide a foul heart. Honey tongue, a heart of gall ‫اُز آرشئنینن اُلچماخ‬ To measure by your own fabric. To judge about people based on your own character. En: To measure other people's corn by one's own bushel. ‫ منه گوز بره لدیر‬، ‫اُوزونه سئچئر‬ Literal Meaning: s/he shit in her/his pants, but glares at me meanwhile. No matter you are scared, you should try to frighten the enemy. ‫اوزون ایتیرماخ‬/ ‫اوزوندن چئخماخ‬ Literal Meaning: To come out of yourself /to lose yourself. To become extremely proud of yourself. ‫اوشاغا ایش تاپئشئر گئت دالئسی جاخ‬ Literal Meaning: Give the child a task to do, then follow him to check. Children usually don’t do the tasks properly as they are playful.

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‫اوغرو دان اوغرویا حاللدی‬ Literal Meaning: from one robber to another is halal. There is no shame in robbing from another robber. ‫اُغرونون اوّل ایشی دوشر آی ائشئغئنا‬ Literal Meaning: it becomes moonlight when an unlucky robber wants to do its first robbery. To be a very unlucky person right from the beginning. ‫اُلسون یا پیش که یرینه یاخچی گلجاخ‬ Literal meaning: May die the Bad who is going to be replaced by a good one. Usually a bad person is replaced by worse not better. ‫اُلی اششه دن نال چکماخ‬ Literal Meaning: to take the shoes of a dead horse. To be opportunist, to make benefit even from the pains of others. ‫اُغالن اِوینده خبر یوخدی قیز اِوینده توی توتوپالر‬ Literal Meaning: Nothing has happened in would-be-bridegroom’s family, the would-be-bride’s family is holding wedding ceremony. Some people are in haste to do things. ‫اوغرو پیشیک آغاج گورجک قاچار‬ Literal meaning: when a robber cat sees stick, it runs. An outlaw escapes the people or situation where s/he might be arrested. ‫اوّل باخ گور آتی وریللر سونرا آغین یا قره سین آختار‬ Literal Meaning: first see if they want to give you the horse or not, then discuss on its being white or black. Refers to a situation where we are not sure if we would be done a favor or not yet, but we argue about how the details of that favor should be. ‫اوّل قارداشلئغوی ثابت ائله سونرا ارث و میراث ایسته‬ Literal Meaning: First prove your brotherhood and then claim heritage. One can’t expect to have a share of benefits without working and contributing to it.

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‫ایپک او قدر خار اولدی اشگه افسار اولدی‬ Literal Meaning: Silk has become so valueless that it has become the donkey bridle. Sometimes noble people lose their social position and work for the ones lower than them. ‫ایت ایتدیگین ترک ائلسه سومسولئغئندان ال چکمز‬ Literal Meaning: dog can’t quit its sluggish manner even if it forgets its being dog. En: A leopard cannot change its spots. ‫ایت گورساغی ساری یاغ گوتومز‬ Literal Meaning: dog’s bowel (intestine) does not accept yellow oil (oil made from the melted butter). Not everyone deserves kindness. ‫ایت موتالدان الچکدی موتال ایتدن ال چکمیر‬ Literal Meaning: the dog left the goatskin, now goatskin does not leave the dog To be chased by the things or one, once one was chasing it. ‫ایت هورر کروان گئچر‬ Literal Meaning: the dog barks and caravan goes by. En: The dogs bark, but the caravan goes on. ‫ایتین اَیاغئندان تیکان چیخارتماخ‬ Literal Meaning: S/he takes thorn out of dog’s foot To have a very difficult job ‫ اِشییم اوزگنی‬،‫ایچیم ازومی یاندئرئر‬ Literal Meaning: my inside burns me and my outside burns others. People don’t know about my pains and they just judge me by my appearance which seems happy and then get jealous. ‫اَیری اتوروپ دوز دانئشماخ‬ Literal Meaning: To seat leftward and talk straight (right). To be honest despite everything. ‫ایش ایچینده ایش وار‬

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Literal Meaning: There is a work in this work. Something clandestine is going on. ‫ایش ایشدن گئچیپ‬ Literal Meaning: the work has overpassed the work. It is too late. ‫ایش اینسانئن جوهری دیر‬ Literal Meaning: Working is the jewel inside human. En: The busiest man finds the most leisure ‫ایش گالسا اوستونه قار یاغار‬ Literal Meaning: if you leave the job undone, the snow will fall on it. En: Never postpone till tomorrow what you must do (can be done) today. ‫ گورنین دییر‬،‫ایش گوردورنین دیر‬ Literal Meaning: Work is done not by the worker but by the one who manages it. It is the good management that counts. ‫ایشلیین دمیری پاس باسماز‬ Literal Meaning: The working iron never gets rusted. The one who works, never gets old or sick. ‫ ایشیم دوشنده گُواالر‬، ‫ایشی دوشنده آختارار‬ Literal Meaning: When s/he needs help, s/he looks for me, when I need her/him, s/he pushes me away. To be benefit-minded with no sense of sharing and helping. ‫ایشین دوشدی آروادا اولن گونون سال یادا‬ Literal Meaning: The day you need your wife’s help, imagine your death. Asking for help from your wife is as hard as dying. ‫ایکی اِشیین آرپاسئن بوله بولمماخ‬ Literal Meaning: Not to be able to divide the barley into two portions for two donkeys. To be very clumsy and unintelligent.

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‫ایکی اوزلی اولماخ‬ Literal meaning: to have two faces To be hypocrite. ‫ایکی عزیزین آراسئنا گیرمزلر‬ Literal Meaning: One should not meddle with two lovers. One should not intrude between two lovers. ‫سئرچه یه دن دوشر‬،‫ایکی قیرغی ساواشار‬ Literal Meaning: Two falcons fight, there falls food for sparrow. There is always a third party who benefits from the problem between two others. ‫ اوز یوواسئنا دوز گدر‬،‫ایالن هر یئره اَیری گدر‬ Literal Meaning: Snake enters everywhere bending, but it enters its own house straight. No matter how we treat others, but we should be honest with our own family. ‫ایالنی اوئوتوب اژدها اولوب‬ Literal Meaning: S/he has swallowed the snake and has become dragon. To become extremely shrewd after having many experiences. ‫ایالنی سید احمد الینن توتماخ‬ Literal Meaning: To hunt the snake by seyed Ahmad’s hand. To get your aim by manipulating others. ‫ایالنئن گویروغون آیاخالماسان چالماز‬ Literal Meaning: If you do not step the tail of a snake, it won’t bite you. One sees bad, when one does bad. ‫اِرمنی قان گوروپ‬ Literal Meaning: A Christian has seen blood. To be very sensitive. ‫اِرمنی مسلمان اِلماخ‬

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Literal Meaning: To force the Christian convert to Islam. To force someone to do something by applying force and violence. ‫اِششیین کوری بوالغین باشیندان سو ایچر‬ Literal Meaning: The blind donkey drinks water from river bank. An ugly person has better luck. ‫ائل اوز دَلی سینی بوراخماز‬ Literal Meaning: people don’t leave their own mad man. People take care of the weakest member of their community or family. ‫ سئل گوجو‬،‫ائل گوجو‬ Literal Meaning: The power of people, the power of flood. En: One man, no man ‫ائلدن عجائیب اولماخ‬ Literal Meaning: To be the odd one among folk. Not to be like public. ‫ائله دانئشئر کی پیشمیش تُویوغون گولماغی گلیر‬ Literal Meaning: S/he talks in a way that cooked chicken feels like laughing. To talk extremely irrationally. ‫ جین دمیرده ن قورخان کیمی‬، ‫ائله گورخور‬ Literal Meaning: He scares the way genie fears from iron. To be scared too much. ‫ائله یئرده یات کی آلتئوا سو گِشمسین‬ Literal Meaning: Don’t sleep where you get wet. Don’t make a decision that you can’t handle its bad consequences ‫ائو ساتان بیر ایل دولتی اوالر ایو آالن بیر ایل کاسب‬ Literal Meaning: The one who sells his house is rich for one year, but the one who buys a house is poor for one year. Selling estates is losing but buying it is winning. ‫ائُوجوزدان باهاسی اولماز‬ Literal Meaning: Nothing is more expensive than cheap.

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One should not pay for cheap stuff as it has no good quality and you have to buy again and again. ‫ائُوجوزلو اتین شورباسی اولماز‬ Literal Meaning: you can’t make good broth with cheap meat. Cheap goods have no good quality. ‫اُجوندان سو داممیر‬ Literal Meaning: water does not drip from his/her palm To be very stingy ‫ائوز دئیرکی ایاخ داشیدی‬ Literal Meaning: It is not face, it is pumice. Refers to a very shameless person ‫ائُوز ِورسین آستار دا ایستیر‬ Literal Meaning: you give the fabric, s/he wants the lining. Someone who always demands for more. ‫مئوزونون سویی توکولوپ‬ Literal meaning: her/his face water has dropped. Someone shameless who no longer feels shame of doing bad. ‫ائوزی گوتوندن ده قیرمیزیدی‬ Literal meaning: his /her face is redder than his/her ass. Extremely rude person. ‫ ایچریسینده قئلّی دری‬، ‫ائوزه باخیرسان حوری پری‬ Literal Meaning: you look at the face, you see beautiful angel, but inside is a pelt-like skin. A beautiful person might have foul heart En: A fair face may hide a foul heart ‫ائُولسون او یاخشی کی پیسدن سونرا گلجاخ‬ Literal Meaning: May die the good one that will replace the bad one. Situations never changes for better, rather it always deteriorates ‫ائُولماخ اُلماخدی خئرئلداماغا نه وار‬ Literal Meaning: dying is dying, what is this moaning for? En: Cowards may die many times before their death.

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‫ گورَر نتیجه‬،‫ائُولمز خدیجه‬ Literal Meaning: Khadijah will not die and will see the grand grandchild (the end). One could see the result if one would wait with patience. ‫ائُولن یوخدور قبرینه سئچاسان‬ Literal Meaning: No one is dying so that you can shit is his grave. Don’t rush, you have to wait a lot ‫ائُولومدن باشقا هر شئیه چاره وار‬ Literal Meaning: there is solution for everything except death. The only thing which has no cure is death ‫ سئچار کفنین باتیرار‬، ‫ائُولونی تک گویسان‬ Literal Meaning: If you leave the dead, it will defecate in its shroud. No one and nothing should be left without inspection and control even a dead person ‫ هانچی تومان اُونا دُزر‬،‫ائُووجور کی خانم باجی چزر‬ Literal Meaning: the way sister farts, no pants can resist it. Some mistakes are so big that it is hard to resist before its consequences ‫ائویمدن چئخار قارنئما گئدیر‬ Literal Meaning: it leaves my house and goes to my mouth. To survive with the least sustenance. En: To live from hand to mouth. ‫اَل الی یووار ال ده دونر ئوزی یووار‬ Literal Meaning: Hand washes hand and hand washes the face. Every goodness has a good payback. En: Scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours One hand washes the other ‫اُلی دوروپ میرده شیری یووور‬ Literal Meaning: Dead has stood up and washes the dead washer. Things are working reverse ‫اَوّلده نئیدی حسن جمالون که ایندی اوالسان مین برکانال‬

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Literal Meaning: your beauty was not remarkable in the beginning, let alone now. Someone or something which is bad in the beginning, will continue being so till the end.

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‫ب‬ ‫ وقت یوخ‬،‫ سوز چوخ‬،‫ باجین اؤلسون‬،‫باجی‬ Literal meaning: Oh sister, may your sister die! There is a lot to say but there is no time. Used to say that two women are gossiping passionately. ‫بارلی آغاجا داش وورارالر‬ Literal Meaning: people throw stone to a fruitful tree. People take advantage of the ones who are beneficial. ‫ دَییرمانا گئدر قیرغین اوالر‬،‫بازارا گئدر یاغیش یاغار‬ Literal Meaning: s/he goes to market, it starts raining, s/he goes to windmill, there begin massacre. An unlucky person is unlucky always and everywhere ‫باشدا آغئل اولماسا بدن عذابدا اوالر‬ Literal Meaning: a head which does not have reason, puts body in trouble. An irrational person create problem for him/herself. ‫باشی داشا دییپ‬ Literal meaning: his head has hit the stone. S/he regrets. ‫باشی پیچاغا سوتماخ‬ Literal Meaning: to rub the head to knife. To look for trouble. ‫ گوتون توتوسان دییر دلما یرپاقی‬،‫باشین توتوسان گوتی دییر دولما یرپاغی‬ Literal Meaning: you hold its head, the bottom demand for grape leaf, you hold the bottom, its head demands for grape leaf. A situation where various problems keep on popping up steadily.

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‫ اوجا یئردن سال‬، ‫باشئوا داش دا ساالندا‬ Literal Meaning: if you want to drop a head on your head, drop it from a high place. It is better to choose a high ambition and target rather than a small one. ‫ باغبان بیر سالخئم اؤزومه قیئیمادی‬، ‫باغ صاحابی باغئنا قیئیدی‬ Literal Meaning: the owner of garden has no problem giving away the whole garden, the gardener does not want to give away a cluster of grape. The servants are more sensitive to the property of their lord than the lord themselves ‫باغ صاحابی تئله سه ده اوزوم واقتیندا یئتیشه ر‬ Literal Meaning: the grape will be ripe when it is supposed to be ripe, no matter how hasty the gardener is. Don’t haste for anything, as there is a time for anything to happen ‫باغبانئن گول واختی قوالغی ائشیتمز‬ Literal Meaning: The gardener becomes deaf when the flowers are ready for picking. People don’t want others around them when they earn good fortune. En: He that has a full purse never wanted a friend. ‫باغدا اریک واریدی سالم علیک واریدی باغدان اریک گورتولدی سالم علیک‬ ‫گورتولدی‬ Literal Meaning: there was greeting between us as long as there was apricot in the garden. Now that apricots is over, greetings is over too. People are around you as long they get benefit from you. ‫باال بالدان دا شیرین‬،‫بال شیرین‬ Literal Meaning: Honey is sweet but one’s child is sweeter than honey. Children are the sweetest beings that parents have. ‫باال لی قارغا بال یئمه ز‬ Literal Meaning: a raven which has a baby can’t eat honey. Parents prefer their children’ welfare to their own. ‫ حرکت ده دیر‬،‫برکت‬

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Literal Meaning: Blessing is in moving. The only way to become successful is to work hard. ‫بِش بارماخ بشیده بیر اولماز‬ Literal Meaning: Not all five fingers are the same. People are different. ‫بُش تابوت باشئندا آغالماخ‬ Literal Meaning: to cry on an empty coffin. En: To flog a dead horse. ‫بُش توتان برک یییر‬ Literal Meaning: the one who takes it too easy, gets beaten too hard. To be extremely easy-taking and reckless in life, makes the person face hard blows. ‫بِش ده آالجاغئم یوخ اوچ ده وئره جاغئم‬ Literal Meaning: I don’t have anything to get at five or anything to pay at three. I am free as I am neither claimant nor debtor. ‫بِش یاشئندا قویون اللّی یاشیندا قاضی نی آالر‬ Literal Meaning: A five-year old goat can buy a fifty years-old judge. Bribe opens all the blocked ways. ‫بوباشدا سئزئلداماخ اُوباشدا آغالماخدان یاخشئدئر‬ Literal Meaning: To moan in the beginning is better than crying at the end. Better to talk the terms of deal openly at the beginning in order to avoid disagreement at the end. ‫بو گونون صاباحی دا وار‬ Literal Meaning: every today has a tomorrow. One must foresee the future. ‫ هر گلن باخار گئدر‬،‫بودونیا بیر گوزگودور‬ Literal Meaning: this world is a mirror, everyone looks at it and passes by. Life is short.

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‫بوردا منم باغداددا کور خلیفه‬ Literal Meaning: I rule here and Caliphate in Baghdad. To be an arrogant and proud person. ‫بولالنئخ سودان بالئخ توتماخ‬ Literal Meaning: to catch fish from muddy water. To make advantage of the uncertain situation. To be opportunist. ‫بورنو یئللی اولماخ‬ Literal Meaning: to have airy nose. To be very proud. ‫بورنوندان توتسان جانی چئخار‬ Literal Meaning: s/he would die if you held his/her nose. To be very weak ‫بوغدا بوغدادان بیته ر‬ Literal Meaning: wheat grows from wheat. En: As you sow so shall you reap ‫بوقارا او قارا یا بنزه مز‬ Literal Meaning: this black is not like the other blacks. This situation seems to be more serious than the previous ones. ‫بوگون قیزین دوگمه ین صاباح دیزین دویه جاخ‬ Literal Meaning: That who does not beat her daughter today, will beat her knees tomorrow. Parents should behave their children as long they are children otherwise they will face problem in adulthood. ‫بوالغ سو توکمه یی ایله بوالغ اولماز گئره ک اوزو جوشا‬ Literal Meaning: you can’t fill a river by carrying water into it, it must flow by itself. You can’t motivate a person by force. Motivation should come from inside. ‫بوالنماسا دورولماز‬ Literal Meaning: it will not be clear without being blurred. En: After rain comes fair weather

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‫بونالردان فاطییا تومان اولماز‬ Literal Meaning: one can’t make pants for Fatima from these (pieces) One can’t count on this solution and must think of a better way. ‫بونون ایپینین ائوستونه اودون یئغماق اولماز‬ Literal Meaning: you can’t stack wood on his/her rope. You can’t rely on this person ‫بورکوموز قاریشار‬ Literal meaning: our hats will be mixed. We will have fight. ‫بؤرکونو قوی قاباغئنا‬ Literal Meaning: Put your hat before you. Be fair ‫بویوک باشئن بویوک بالسی اوالر‬ Literal Meaning: Big head has big troubles. En: The bigger they are, the harder they fall ‫بَی وِئرن آتئن دیشله رینی سایمازالر‬ Literal Meaning: One should not count the teeth of the horse given by lord. En: Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth ‫بیر اَلده ایکی گارپئز توتماغ اولماز‬ Literal Meaning: it is not possible to carry two water melons in one hand. En: If you run after two hares, you will catch neither. ‫ بیر جووالدوز اوزگیه‬،‫بیر اینه اوزووه وور‬ Literal Meaning: Sting yourself with a small needle when you sting others with a big needle. En: Sweep before your own door ‫بیر آلما گویه گئدیپ یره دوشنجاخ مین دفه فئرالنار‬ Literal Meaning: an apple going up will roll thousands of time before it falls down.

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An event may experience many changes until it reaches to its final status that is why one should not be quick in judgments. ‫بیر آیاغی قبیرده اولماخ‬ Literal Meaning: To have one leg in grave. To be too old. ‫بیز بخت آچانوخ اَرَ گدن دَییروخ‬ Literal Meaning: we don’t get married but help others get married. We pave the way for others success but we can’t be successful ourselves ‫داما داما گو’ل اوالر‬،‫بیر بیر مین اوالر‬ Literal Meaning: one on one makes thousands and drop on drop makes lake. En: Many a little makes a mickle. ‫بیر تخته سی اسکیک دی‬ Literal Meaning: one stack of his/her (mind) is missing. s/he has part missing (s/he is stupid). ‫اون تیکه نی ده بیلمز‬، ‫بیر تیکه نی بیلمه ین‬ Literal Meaning: the one not grateful for one morsel, will not be grateful for thousands of morsels. An ungrateful person is ungrateful no matter how much you give her/him ‫بیر داش ایله ایکی قوش وورماخ‬ Literal Meaning: to hit two birds with one stone. En: To kill two birds with one stone ‫بیر دَلینین گویویا سالدئغی داشی مین دانا عقیلی چیخاردا بیلمز‬ Literal Meaning: thousands of wise people can’t take out the stone a mad has dropped in a well. En: A fool may throw a stone into a well which a hundred wise men cannot pull out. ‫بیر ساعتدی تنبکی یانیر االن دئیر نه توسسو سیدی‬

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Literal Meaning: it is one hour that tobacco is burning, now s/he asks “what this smell? To be unaware of about what goes on around. ‫ مین سوز دئییلمز‬،‫بیر سوز اولماسا‬ Literal Meaning: people would not say many things if there were not one thing. En: there is no smoke without fire ‫ هامی کور سنده کور‬،‫بیر کنده گیردین‬ Literal Meaning: when you enter a village, everyone blind you blind too. En: When at Rome, do like the Romans do ‫بیر گول ایله باهار اولماز‬ Literal Meaning: spring does not come with one flower. En: One swallow does not make a summer ‫بیرلیک هاردا دیریلیک اوردا‬ Literal Meaning: life is where there is unity. Liveliness is in unity. ‫بیری المسه بیری دیریلمز‬ Literal meaning: if one did not die, the other would not become alive En: one man’s loss is another man’s gain. ‫بیری باتمان گلسه او بیری گره یاریم باتمان گله‬ Literal Meaning: If someone is one baatmaan, the other should be half baatmaan (unit of measuring weight). One of the two arrogant people should compromise. ‫ طوفان اُندان گُپار‬،‫بیری یییر بیری باخار‬ Literal Meaning: One eats and others watch, that is why storm happens. Injustice results in uprising. ‫بیر یییرم دن گورخ بیر ده یمیرم دن‬ Literal meaning: fear of two people: one who says “I eat” and the one who says “I don’t eat”.

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Two people eat more than others, a shy one who says s/he won’t eat but eats a lot after a while. The other who acknowledges that s/he will eat and starts eating truly a lot. ‫بیرینه پاپئش تیکماخ‬ Literal Meaning: to sew bootees for someone. En: to frame somebody ‫بیزیم گلین بیزدن قاچار اوزون توتار گوتون آچار‬ Literal Meaning: our bride avoids us, she covers her head but reveals her buttocks. To be ashamed of what you should not be and not to be ashamed of what you should be. ‫بیکارلئخ بیعارلئخ‬ Literal Meaning: not working is being remiss. It is a remiss person who is idle. ‫بئش بارماخ بئشیده بیر اولماز‬ Literal Meaning: not all five fingers are the same. People are different. ‫بئش قئرانلئق یوغورت کیمین اوزون توتماخ‬ Literal Meaning: To look vapid like a five-toman yoghurt. To be unapproachable and proud.

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‫پ‬ ‫ مرد رند آژلیخدان اولر‬،‫پاخما اولماسا‬ Literal Meaning: the smart would die in hunger if there was no naive. En: one man’s loss is one man’s gain. ‫ کیمه دییم دردیمی؟‬،‫ آلاله یوخاری دا‬،‫پادشاه اوزاغ دا‬ Literal Meaning: God is up there and king is too far away, to whom shall I say my pains? Refers to the desperate situation where one has no one to get help of. ‫پاسلی دمیردَن قئلئنج اولماز‬ Literal Meaning: you can’t make sword from rusted iron. Do your investment on right place ‫پاکات ایچینده سؤز دئماخ‬ Literal Meaning: To say words in bag. To speak covertly. ‫پامبئغئنان باش کسماخ‬ Literal Meaning: to be authoritative in a very gentle way. En: To cut one’s throat with a feather ‫ یاش یا قورو‬، ‫پُخ پوخدور‬ Literal Meaning: shit is shit, either wet or dry. Bad is bad no matter how the appearance looks. ‫پُخ یییَنین قاشیغی بلینده اوالر‬ Literal Meaning: the one who wants to eat shit, should carry his /her spoon on her/his back. When embarking to do something, one should count on his/her own facilities and capabilities, not others’ ‫پنیری دری ساخالر قادئنی اری‬

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Literal Meaning: goatskin preserves the cheese and the man protects his wife. En: A good Jack makes a good Jill ‫پول اَلین چرکیدیر‬ Literal Meaning: money is hand filth. Money is not valuable ‫پولی جیبین دلیر‬ Literal Meaning: His money is making hole is his pocket. En: His money burns a hole in his pocket. ‫پیس یرده توکان آچمئشام‬ Literal Meaning: to open shop in a bad place. En: To fish in troubled waters. ‫پولو پوال وئرماخ‬ Literal Meaning: give money to money. Give money to something which is worthy of buying. ‫پول پول گتیرر‬ Literal Meaning: money brings money. En: money begets money ‫پیچاق اوز دسته سین کسمز‬ Literal Meaning: knife does not cut its handle. En: Don’t cut the bough you are standing on ‫پیچاق وورسان قانی چئخماز‬ Literal Meaning: if you stab him with knife, no blood comes out. To be extremely mad at someone or something. ‫پیس اوالدی نه آتماغ اوالر نه اوتماغ‬ Literal Meaning: it is neither possible to throw nor swallow a bad child. It is neither possible to abandon nor tolerate a bad child. ‫سئچدی اوستون باسدئردی‬، ‫پیشی یه دئدیلر پوخون درمان دی‬ Literal Meaning: The cat was said: your dung is cure, it shit and covered it.

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the more you implore, the more reluctant the stingy person to share ‫پیشییین آغزی اَته چاتماز دئیه ر مینداردی‬ Literal Meaning: The cat can’t reach the meat, he says: “it is dirty”. Those who can’t reach a favored things or situation, start talking bad behind it

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‫ت‬ ‫تاری یازانی بنده پوزا بیلمز‬ Literal Meaning: Human can’t change the destiny written by God. En: No flying from fate. ‫تایلی تایئن تاپمالی‬ Literal Meaning: Everyone should look for the one of same type. Everyone should socialize with the one who is similar to him/her. En: birds from the same feather, fly together. ‫ترلی چالئر توربالی اوینور‬ Literal Meaning: the one selling Tare (Allium ampeloprasum persicum; a kind of vegetable) plays music and the one with sack is dancing. The ultimate point of disorder and chaos. ‫تک اَلدن سس چئخماز‬ Literal Meaning: There is no sound in single hand. En: One man, no man ‫تکلئخ آلالها گلیب‬ Literal Meaning: Being alone is peculiar only to God. Human being is not meant to be alone. ‫تکه ده قوچ هنری اولماز‬ Literal Meaning: goat does not have the art of a ram. A weak person can’t perform like a strong one. ‫ اره گئتسده خئیر گؤرمز‬،‫تلسن قیز اره گئتمز‬ Literal Meaning: the girl who hurries to marry, does not get married and even if she does, she won’t be happy. En: Haste makes waste

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All things come to those who wait Everything comes to him who waits ‫ قئزی زیرنگ اوالر‬، ‫تنبل قادئنئن‬ Literal Meaning: a lazy mother has a peppy girl. A lazy mother usually has a peppy girl. ‫توخون آجدان خبری اولماز‬ Literal Meaning: A full person is not aware of a hungry person. The rich class is usually unaware of lower class ‫اورکدن سو ایچر‬،‫توک ایله دری‬ Literal Meaning: skin and hair get water from heart. The way skin and hair look is indicative of the psychological status of the person. ‫توال ایتدن ده مردار اوالر‬ Literal Meaning: puppy is dirtier than bitch itself. Children inherit the bad behaviors of parents in stronger ways. En: Like parents, like children ‫تولکو سوواخلی باغا گیرمه ز‬ Literal Meaning: the fox never enters a garden which has walls. No one can damage the property which is protected ‫تولکوسن آسالن ایله چیخما ساوشا‬ Literal Meaning: if you are a fox don’t look for fight with lion. Don’t challenge yourself with someone stronger than yourself. ‫ قویروغوم‬:‫تولکویه دئدیلر هانی شاهیدین؟ دئدی‬ Literal Meaning the fox was asked? “Who is your witness? It said: “my tail”. Refers to a situation where one’s excuse is worse than one’s mistake. ‫تویدا اوینایانین بویون گوره رلر‬ Literal Meaning: people see the body of the person who dances in wedding. En: The higher the ape goes, the more he shows his tail.

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‫تویدان سونرا ناغارانین فایداسی اولماز‬ Literal Meaning: there is no use to play drum after wedding. En: There's a time and a place for everything. ‫ یئنه ائشَلنمگیندن قالماز‬، ‫تویوغو بیر خالوار بوغدانین ایچینه سالسان‬ Literal Meaning: if you put the hen inside plenty of seeds, it won’t stop scrabbling the ground. A hard-working man can’t quit working hard even if he gets drowned in wealth ‫تویوغون اوشدوغی کوللوغا جان اوالر‬ Literal Meaning: the hen can fly only up the dunghill. An unintelligent person can’t make great decisions ‫تویوغون بیر قیچی وار‬ Literal Meaning: hen has only one leg. To be stubborn and stick to your own idea ‫تویوق نه قدیر کؤکله او قدیرده بوزدومو داراالر‬ Literal Meaning: the fatter the hen, the tighter its vent. The richer, the stingier. ‫محبّت آرتیرار‬،‫تیکه گارین دویورماز‬ Literal Meaning: morsel does not feed, rather increases the love. Sharing bits does not feed, rather creates friendships and love

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‫ج‬ ‫جاالنان سو بیر داها کوزه یه قِییتمز‬ Literal Meaning: the water poured on ground never returns back to ewer. En: what is done cannot be undone What is lost is lost ‫ کامال گاالر‬،‫جامال گئدر‬ Literal Meaning: beauty goes, good manner remains. Beauty is temporary but nice behavior remains. ‫جان آلالها ورماخ‬ Literal Meaning: to give soul to God To be extremely lazy for doing something. ‫ جان ائشیت‬،‫جان ده‬ Literal Meaning: say my soul, hear my soul. Do kindness to see kindness. ‫جان شیرین اولور‬ Literal Meaning: soul is sweet. Soul (life) is sweet ‫جان وئره ر مال وئرمز‬ Literal Meaning: s/he is ready to give life (die) but not to give money. To be very stingy. ‫ ماال گلسین‬،‫جانا گلن‬ Literal Meaning: May what is supposed to happen to our soul, happen to our money. Better to lose money than health. ‫ آت دان یئیین گئدر‬،‫جانی آغریان اِئشک‬ Literal Meaning: The donkey which has pain runs faster than horse.

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The one in pain works harder. ‫جانین قاشینیر‬ Literal meaning: your body itches. Seems you look for trouble. ‫ صفا گورمز‬،‫جفا چکمه ین‬ Literal Meaning: the one who does not see pain, does not enjoy. En: If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun. No pain no gain ‫ گویدن س… یاغار‬، ‫ن دوعاسی مستجاب اولسا‬....‫جند‬ Literal Meaning: if the prayers of a bitch were accepted, it would rain p….s. The world is not run by the wishes of wicked people. ‫جواهر جیندا آراسیندا اوالر‬ Literal Meaning: the jewelry always lies in ragged cloth. En: don’t judge the book by its cover ‫جوجه نی پاییزدا سایارالر‬ Literal Meaning: chickens are counted at the end of autumn. En: Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched ‫جوجه همیشه سبت آلتئندا قالماز‬ Literal Meaning: chicken never stays under basket forever. En: truth will out. ‫جوجه یومورتادان چیخار گابئغئنی بینمز‬ Literal Meaning: chicken hatches and looks down on its own shell. Children usually don’t accept their parents. ‫جهننمه گئدن اؤزونه یولداش آختارار‬ Literal Meaning: the one going to hell looks for a company. An outlaw always looks for a partner for his wrong doings. ‫جهوت کیمن پول یئغماخ‬ Literal Meaning: to collect money like Jews. To be stingy and money lover.

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‫چ‬ ‫گئدر پیشییین پئشوازینا‬،‫چاخئری توکسن سیچانین بوغازینا‬ Literal Meaning: If you pour alcohol in mouth’s throat, it will look for cat People should not be counted on beyond their potentials. ‫چادرا سئزلئخ دان ائوده قالماخ‬ Literal Meaning: To stay at home for not having Chador. No to show the real face because the occasion does not arise. ‫ چاغئرمایان یئره باخمازالر‬،‫چاغئران یئردن قالمازالر‬ Literal Meaning: don’t skip from where you have been invited to, don’t look at the place where you have not been invited. Don’t go where you are not invited and don’t miss going where you are invited ‫ چاالر الر قاپئنی‬،‫چالما قاپئمی‬ Literal Meaning: don’t knock on my door, they will knock on your door. Don’t make trouble for others as they can make trouble for you ‫ آلماسی قیزارار‬،‫چالیشان قازانار‬ Literal Meaning: the one who works earns, and his/her apples get red (ripe) En: No money, no honey No pain, no gain ‫چوخ اوجا سئچیپ هله بیرده باشئندان دیشلیر‬ Literal Meaning: s/he thinks he has not shit high, on top of it, he bites it from top. To defend a wrong deed

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‫چوخ زرینگلیخ جوانمرگلیخ گتیرر‬ Literal Meaning: too much smartness makes one die young. To be too shrewd harms the person himself finally. ‫چوخ گزن چوه بولر چوخ یاشیان یوخ‬ Literal Meaning: the one who travels a lot knows more not the one who lives long. Knowledge comes through experience not living long. ‫چوخ محبت تئز آیرلئخ گتیر ر‬ Literal Meaning: too much love causes early separation. Lovers separate faster. ‫چوخ یماخلئخ آدامی آز یماخدان دا گویار‬ Literal Meaning: eating much hampers eating little. To have greed for obtaining more makes you lose the little you already have En: The camel going to seek horns lost his ears ‫چومچه آش دان ایستی اولوپ‬ Literal Meaning: ladle is warmer than soup. En: to be more catholic than pope. ‫ گؤر لذت‬،‫چه زحمت‬ Literal Meaning: work hard, then enjoy. En: no pain, no gain ‫ سویو کوزَهدَه‬، ‫چؤره یی سوفرادا گؤرؤب‬ Literal Meaning: s/he has seen the bread on the table and water in ewer. En: to be born with a silver spoon in one’s mouth ‫ قاپاغئنئ تاپار‬، ‫چؤلمَک گَزَر‬ Literal Meaning: the pot rolls and finds its lid. En: birds of a feather flock together ‫چیبان مئندار اولماز اوره ک بوالندئرار‬

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Literal Meaning: wen is not unclean but it makes human feel sick. Some problems are not serious but they challenge human same way as hard problems do. ‫چیراخ اوز دیبینه ائشئخ وئر مز‬ Literal Meaning: the lamp does not shed light around on its own base. En: The darkest place is under the candlestick

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‫ح‬ ‫ آغئز شیرین اولماز‬،‫حالوا حالوا دماغینان‬ Literal Meaning: mouth does not get sweet only by saying “Halva”. En: wishes don’t wash the dishes ‫حامام سویو ایله دوست توتماخ‬ Literal Meaning: to make friends by bath water. To make friends by spending the money from others’ pocket. ‫ ده قلیان چکر‬...‫حسن ده قلیان چکر حسین ده قلیان چکر؛ منیم ده پولوم اولسا س‬ Literal Meaning: Hassan smokes hobble bubble, Hussein smokes too, if I had money, my p….. would smoke too To live well, we don’t need others’ advice, we need money. ‫حق ایله باطیلین آراسی دورد بارماقدئر‬ Literal Meaning: the distance between wrong and right is just four fingers. The border between wrong and right is too close. ‫ وئرمه لی ده ییل‬،‫حق آلمالئدئر‬ Literal Meaning: right is not given, it should be taken. To get our right, we have to fight for it. ‫حق داشی آغئر اوالر‬ Literal Meaning: the stone of right is heavy. It is the right person who finally wins. ‫حق سوز آجی اوالر‬ Literal Meaning: right word is bitter. Truth is hard to accept. ‫حق سوز آخار سوالری ساخالر‬ Literal Meaning: right words stop the streaming water. Truth have great power.

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‫ همدان اوزاخ کردیسی یاخئن‬/‫حکماوار‬ Literal Meaning: Hokmabad / Hamadan is far but its patch is close. To prove oneself one needs not to go far away. ‫حکیم اشه اتی بویوروپ‬ Literal Meaning: Doctor has ordered donkey flesh. To insist on doing something impossible. ‫حیرصین دوولته زیانئ وار‬ Literal Meaning: anger damages property. Control yourself when you get angry as you might damage your own property. ‫اینسانئن ایشینه‬، ‫حیوانئن دیشینه باخارالر‬ Literal Meaning: one looks at animal’s tooth but people’s deed. En: The work shows the workman

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‫خ‬ ‫ عمی دن دده‬،‫خاالدان ننه اولماز‬ Literal Meaning: aunt can’t be mother, uncle can’t be father. No body, except the true parents of a child really care for the child. ‫ عالم بیلدی‬،‫خاالم بیلدی‬ Literal meaning: My aunt knows, the world knows. If a gossiping person knew something about you, s/he would spread it among everyone. ‫خالقا ایت هورسه بیزه چاققال هوره ر‬ Literal meaning: People are barked to by dog, we are braked to by jackal. To be unfortunate ‫خانم سئندئران قابئن سسی چئخماز‬ Literal Meaning: the dishes broken by the woman makes no sound women misuse their authority at home to cover up their own mistakes. ‫خکه خکه دئیینجه قئش چئخار‬ Literal Meaning: the winter comes to end while you keep on asking for “coal”. En: If you want a thing done well, do it yourself ‫خلقین ایسسی آشئنا سویوخ سوگاتماخ‬ Literal Meaning: to mix cold water to someone’s hot soup. To make trouble for the glooming business of people. En: To put a spoke in somebody’s wheel ‫خمیر چوخ سو آپارار‬ Literal meaning: Dough takes a lot of water. Don’t be quick to judge about events. Wait and see how they will turn out.

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‫خیاطئن اینه سی ایتمسه گونده اون دانا کوینک تیکر‬ Literal Meaning: the tailor could sew ten suits a day if his needle would not get lost. People look for pretext to justify their laziness ‫ خیر گلسین باشووا‬،‫خیر ایسته قونشووا‬ Literal meaning: Wish good for your neighbor so that you face good too. The outcome of having good will for others is getting good will. ‫ خئییر گوتور‬، ‫خییر وئر‬ Literal Meaning: give goodness, take goodness. Be good to get goodness payback. En: Scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours

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‫د‬ ‫ دادسئز سؤز باش آغریسی‬،‫دادلی سؤز جان آرزوسو‬ Literal Meaning: Sweet words are the heart desire, bitter words are headache. People always run from sharp tongue and prefer kind treatment ‫ نه بیلیسَن لذّتینی؟‬،‫دادمامیسان قاز اَتینی‬ Literal Meaning: you have not tasted the goose meat, how can you know the taste? Don’t judge about what you have not experienced. ‫ بلکه بیر گون اولمیه؟‬،‫دادنمیسان دولمیه‬ Literal meaning: you are used to Dolmeh, what if someday there is none? Don’t get used to welfare since you will suffer if someday you lose it. ‫ دیندیرنده یامان دئسین‬،‫داشدان چؤرک چیخارت گتیر وئر نورجاهان یئسین‬ Literal meaning: Earn money from stone, and feed Noor Jahan (female name meaning the world light), but when you talk to her, she swears. Refers to an ungrateful woman. ‫داش دوشدوغو یرده آغردی‬ Literal Meaning: stone is heavy where it is fallen. One is luckier in the first choices one makes in marriage, job, etc. therefore it is better to stick to the first choice rather than changing steadly. ‫ آدامین خیرداسی بویویه ر‬،‫داشین خیرداسی بویومه ز‬ Literal meaning: A small stone never grows but a small person grows. The key to greatness is modesty. ‫داغدا جئیران گؤرسه دیر‬ Literal meaning: She shows deer on the mountains.

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To talk about impossible goals. ‫ آدام آداما یتیشر‬،‫داغ داغا یئتیشمز‬ Literal Meaning: two mountains never meet each other but two humans do. En: Men may meet but mountains never. ‫ اینسانی باش‬،‫داغی داش بزه یه ر‬ Literal meaning: Stone adorns the mountains, wisdom adorns human. The adornment of human is his/her wisdom. ‫داغ یئخئلماسا دره دولماز‬ Literal meaning: if the mountains did not fall, the valley would not get filled. En: one man’s loss is another man’s gain ‫دال گاباغئنا گشملی دئیر‬ Literal meaning: you can’t either pass her or follow her A moody person ‫ قاباغا گئشسن دییرلر بیج دی‬، ‫دالیا قالسان دئیرلر گیج دی‬ Literal Meaning: if you advance, they will call you bastard, if you are left behind, they call you stupid. People always have something to criticize you. ‫دالیدان آتان داش توپوغا دیر‬ Literal meaning: the stone thrown from behind, hits the ankle. If you have something to say be brave and say to his/her face. Don’t backbite as it is useless. ‫دامارا باخئپ قان آلماخ‬ Literal Meaning: to look at the vein and get blood. To get benefit and advantage from others as much as they afford to give. ‫دانئشدی گوللر آشدی‬ Literal Meaning: s/he talked and flower flourished. Being reckless and inconsiderate while talking. ‫دام دوروپ بنّانی سووور‬

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Literal meaning: The wall stands and builds the mason. En: Don't teach your Grandma to suck eggs ‫ دانشماماخ دا باشارمسان‬،‫دانئشماخ باسارمسان‬ Literal meaning: if you don’t know how to talk, don’t you know how not to talk If you can’t talk properly at least be silent. ‫دانئشماخ گوموشدن اولسا دانئشماماخ قئزئلدان دئر‬ Literal Meaning: if talking is silver, silence is gold. En: Speech is silver but silence is gold. ‫داعوا آراسئندا نرخ تعیین الماخ‬ Literal Meaning: to determine price in the middle of a quarrel. Being opportunist by talking about one’s favorite conditions right in the middle of other’s fight. ‫ آرابانی چکن آتدیر‬، ‫دایچا نه قدر برک گاچسا‬ Literal Meaning: no matter how quick the colt runs, it is the power of the horse which carries the coach. It is the good management which runs a business not the power of workers. ‫ ددوخ یکه دانئش ددی یکه گامیش‬،‫ددوخ دانئش ددی گامیش‬ Literal Meaning: we said talk, s/he said: ox, we said talk big, s/he said: big ox. Not to be considerate while talking and talking recklessly. ‫ هر گلنی وور دئدی‬،‫ددم منه کور دئدی‬ Literal Meaning: my father has told me you are blind, so hit anyone who passes by. To be aggressive towards others. ‫دده مین دامین یئخمیشام کی قار کوره مییه م‬ Literal meaning: I have destroyed my father’s house so as not to plow the snow from the top. An extremely lazy person. ‫درد الیندن اُخورام گلن دییر عشقه باخ‬

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Literal Meaning: I am singing from pain, people say look at the passion of love! People always judge you by appearance. ‫درد بیر دانا اولسا چکماغا نه وار‬ Literal Meaning: if there were only one trouble, one could easily bear it. People usually have lots of troubles and problems to bear. ‫دردلی دینگن اوالر‬ Literal Meaning: the one with so many pains, nags a lot. Pains makes one nag a lot. ‫دئوز سوزی اوشاخدان ائشیت‬ Literal Meaning: listen the right words from the child En: Truth comes out of the mouths of babies and sucklings ‫دوزلوخدا یرییه بولمور شخم دا شالخ آتئر‬ Literal Meaning: s/he can’t walk on smooth road, s/he kicks in ploughed land. To challenge yourself with something which is beyond your real capabilities. ‫دوست آدی قارداش آدیندان سئچیلمز‬ Literal meaning: You can’t tell apart the name of a friend from the name of a brother A good friend is like a brother. ‫دوست سوز اینسان قاناد سیز قوش کیمی دیر‬ Literal meaning: A human without friend is a bird without wing. One should have friends. ‫دئدی بیلمیرم بیر ده ایکی نفرینن قرارم وار یا ایکی ده بیر نفرینن‬ Literal meaning: s/he said: I do not know if I have appointment with one person at two o’clock or I have appointment with two people at one o’clock. ‫ یورولماز‬، ‫دئوز یول گه ده ن‬ Literal Meaning: one who goes the right path, never gets tired. being righteous gives one power to follow his/her path

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‫دُزَن آپارار دایانان مقصده چاتار‬ Literal Meaning: the one who waits, wins, the one who tolerates, reaches the destination. En: Slow and steady wins the race All things come to those who wait Everything comes to him who waits ‫دلی دلینی گورنده چماغین گیزلدر‬ Literal meaning: When a crazy sees another crazy, s/he hides her/his stick. Two angry people are usually afraid of each other that is why they behave cautiously. ‫دلی یه هر گون بایرامدئر‬ Literal meaning: For a mad, it is always Eid. For someone who has no worry about future, all days are the same. ‫دلی یه یل ور الینه بل ور‬ Literal meaning: Give the mad air, and then give him/her spade. An irrational one makes a lot of trouble when being praised. ‫دمیر قاپی نین تخته قاپیه دا ایشی دؤشر‬ Literal meaning: The iron door may someday need the help of wooden door. Strong and known people someday may need weak people. ‫دنیا بشدی آخری ِهشدی‬ Literal Meaning: the world is five, its end is nothing. Life is too short and too valueless. ‫دونیانی بوغدا توتسادا کهلیگین روزیسی چینقیلدیر‬ Literal meaning: even though the world gets filled with wheat, the share of the partridge is always with sand. A person who is used to live in misery can’t change his/her life style, even if s/he has full welfare. ‫دوز ییییپ دوز گابی سئندئرما‬ Literal Meaning: to eat salt and to break the saltshaker.

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En: Never cast dirt into that fountain of which you have sometime drunk. ‫دوز وقته دوالر تخته تاباخ ادویه ایله اوندا کی ننم سانجیالنار زنجفیل اولماز‬ Literal meaning: Normally the shelves are full of spice, but when my mom has stomachache, there is no ginger. Things are not there right when we need them. ‫ دوشمن آیاغا‬،‫دوست باشا باخار‬ Literal Meaning: friend looks at your head, the enemy looks at your foot. Friends judge you according to your thoughts but enemies judge you according to your appearance. ‫ تازیه دییر توت‬، ‫دووشانا دییر گاچ‬ Literal Meaning: s/he tells the rabbit to run and tells the dog to catch it. To bring to enemies into confrontation for one’s own benefit. ‫دوالنان آیاغا داش دیه ر‬ Literal Meaning: the stone touches the walking foot En: a cat in glove catches no flies A close mouth catches no flies. ‫ کاسیب اوتورار پولالرین سایار‬، ‫دولتلی پول چیخاردار‬ Literal Meaning: the rich earns money, the poor sits and counts his money. Rich people are not content with little money, but a poor one becomes quickly content with little money. ‫دوواخ آخار گودوشون تاپار‬ Literal Meaning: pot lid rolls and finds its own pot. People socialize with the ones of their own type. En: birds of a feather flock together ‫آدامی غم‬، ‫دوواری نم یئخار‬ Literal Meaning: damp destroys the wall, grief destroy human. Anguish kills human. ‫دوه دن بویوک فیل وار‬

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Literal Meaning: elephant is bigger than camel. There is always someone who has the upper hand. ‫دوه دن ده بیر قیل غنیمتدیر‬ Literal Meaning: one single hair from camel is a gain. To fleece something from a rich stingy person is a gain. ‫دوه دیزین بینیپ خانیم اوزون بینیپ‬ Literal Meaning: camel is in love with its knees, the lady is in love with herself. Refers to a selfish and proud woman who has also many shortcomings ‫ده وه نی چؤمچه ینه ن سووارمازالر‬ Literal meaning: one should not give water to camel by ladle. A big man needs to be fed more than normal people. Or, a big aim needs big efforts. ‫دونین اولوسی ده اششه دن بویوکدور‬ Literal Meaning: a dead camel is still bigger than an alive donkey. Some good people who are powerless are still far better than powerful but bad bad-natured people ‫ دئدی هارام دوزدی کی‬، ‫دوه یه دئدیلر بُینون ایریدی‬ Literal Meaning: the camel was asked: “why is your neck bent?” it says “where is the right part of my body?” Refers to a person who has many inadequacies and faults. ‫فیکیرده دیلی‬،‫دیل گوجو باسار‬ Literal meaning: tongue (words) conquers the power, and thinking, conquers the tongue. First, think, then talk and then apply power. ‫دیلی دیش دورمور‬ Literal Meaning: his/her tongue does not stand idle. En: The tongue of idle person is never idle. ‫دیشلیین ایت هورمز‬ Literal Meaning: a barking dog never bites. En: a threatened blow is seldom given

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Great barkers are no biters ‫دیلی دیینین گُتی یییر‬ Literal Meaning: the one whose tongue talks, gets his / her ass beaten. One should control her/his tongue not to face problem. ‫دینه نی وار‬، ‫دینمییَنین‬ Literal Meaning: The one who is silent has someone to protest for her. There is someone who protects you where you are not able of protecting yourself. ‫دییرمان نوبتینن ایشلر‬ Literal Meaning: the windmill works by turn. Everything is working by turn and order. ‫ اوست داشی اُوزون الدورور‬،‫دییرمانین آت داشی دینمیر‬ Literal Meaning: the nether millstone is silent, the upper millstone kills itself. The person who is truly in problem is silent but the one with small problems moans and complains a lot. ‫دئدی دئدی مالکه دیر‬ Literal Meaning: saying something repeatedly turns it to reality. Repeat something until it becomes reality. ‫دئدی نئجه سن آنالمایام پارتدایاسان‬،‫دئدی نئجه سن بیر سوز دئییم چاتدایاسان‬ Literal meaning: One said: how would you feel if I said something to burn you, the other said: how would you feel if I pretended I did not understand, to burst you? To pretend to be ignorant so as to annoy others. ‫دئوین قوالغئنا قورقوشوم‬ Literal Meaning: May the lead fill the ears of monster. May the God protect us from bad wills and intentions. (a superstitious expression) ‫گوجونله قازاندیرا بیلمزسن‬،‫دیلینله قازاندیران دوشمنی‬ Literal meaning: you can turn an enemy to a friend by your tongue but not by power. What you can do by kind word you can’t do by power and force.

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‫ذ‬ ‫ذکرسیز مومنی شیطان آلالدار‬ Literal Meaning: Satan deceives the believer without prayer. One should be always in contact with God ‫ذوقسوز طاعت بارسئز آغاشدئر‬ Literal Meaning: the worship without enthusiasm is like a fruitless tree. Be pure and eager while worshipping

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‫ر‬ ‫لعنت پوزانا‬، ‫رحمت دوزه نه‬ Literal Meaning: May the God bless the one who builds, and damn the one who destroys. En: It is easier to pull down than to build ‫رعیتین دوواری آلچاق اوالر‬ Literal meaning: The wall of the poor is short. Poor people are also unfortunate, being blamed for everything. ‫رنگیمه باخ احوالئمی خبر آل‬ Literal Meaning: look at my face color and then ask about how I feel. One’s appearance is indicative of how one feels. ‫روزوسو گلن زامان یوخو توتار کؤپه یین‬ Literal Meaning: Dog falls asleep when it is time for its sustenance to be given. An unlucky person misses the chance of his/ her life due to negligence ‫روشوه جهنمی ایشئقالندئرار‬ Literal meaning: Bribe lightens the hell. Bribe solves the worst problems.

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‫ز‬ ‫زحمت باتماز‬ Literal meaning: Efforts never sink. No effort is in vain. ‫زحمت چکمه ین راحتلئغئن قدرینی بیلمز‬ Literal meaning: That who has not tried, can’t taste the comfort. That who does not work hard, never knows the value of comfort. ‫ ال آچار‬،‫زحمت دن قاچان‬ Literal meaning: That who runs from working, opens hand. That who runs from working, has to ask for others’ alms. ‫زحمت سیز بال دادانمازسان‬ Literal Meaning: you can’t taste honey without working hard. En: No money no honey ‫زحمت عطری تر دیر‬ Literal meaning: Sweating is the perfume of working. The smell of sweat says that one is working. ‫زحمتی مشاطه چکر لذتی داماد آپارئر‬ Literal Meaning: the hairdresser works hard, the bridegroom takes the joy. En: One beats the bush, and another catches the bird ‫زر اوالن یئرده زرگر دا اوالر‬ Literal meaning: Wherever there is gold, there is goldsmith too. Where there is a benefit, there is someone to take advantage of it. ‫زر دئینی زور دئمز‬ Literal meaning: What gold can say, power can’t say. The door opened by money can’t be opened by power. ‫زر قدرین زرگر بیلر‬

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Literal meaning: Goldsmith knows the value of gold. People who know the valuable things, know their value more. ‫زُرونان پازار اولماز‬ Literal Meaning: one can’t make a deal by force En: You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink. ‫زیانئن یاریسئندان گییتماق قازانجدئر‬ Literal Meaning: to draw back from the middle of a loss is victory. To avoid the loss at any point is gain. ‫زئرنانی گن طرفدن چالماخ‬ Literal Meaning: to play the Soorna (a musical instrument like clarinet) from its bell side. Making a task more complicated and difficult by doing it in wrong way.

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‫س‬ ‫ گلر زامانی‬، ‫ساخال سامانی‬ Literal Meaning: don’t throw the chaff away, there comes the time you will need it. En: Keep a thing seven years and you will find a use for it. ‫ساخال منی ساخلییم سنی‬ Literal Meaning: take care of me to take care of you. En: A good Jack makes a good Jill. ‫ قیزارا قیزارا اولمه ک یاخشئدئر‬، ‫ساراال ساراال قالماخدان‬ Literal Meaning: to die with red face is better than living with yellow face En: better a glorious death than a shameful life. Better die standing than live kneeling. ‫کیتابین قیمتی یوخدور‬،‫ساری قیزیلین بیر باهاسی وارسا‬ Literal meaning: Even if the yellow gold has high price, book has no price. Book is the most invaluable thing ever. ‫ساققالیم یوخدی سوزوم گئشمیر‬ Literal Meaning: No one believes me as I have no beard. Being male counts more than being wise. ‫سام یئلی اولماخ‬ Literal Meaning: to be summer wind To be moody. ‫سرباز نه بیلیر هیوا کالدئر‬ Literal Meaning: soldier does not care if quince is green. En: Hunger finds no fault with cookery. ‫سس سیز طیاره اولماخ‬

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Literal Meaning: to be the silent airplane. En: to be as dangerous as silent water. ‫سفه ننه نین سفه ده قئزی اوالر‬ Literal Meaning: a stupid mother has a stupid daughter. En: like mothers, like daughters. ‫سالم سالمتلئخ گتیره ر‬ Literal Meaning: saying “salam” brings health. Saying “salam” brings health. ‫سن اوخیانی من توخورام‬ Literal Meaning: I weave what you read. I am more experienced than you. ‫ اینکلری کیم ساغا؟‬، ‫ من آقا‬، ‫سن آقا‬ Literal Meaning: you are sir, I am sir, who shall milk the cows now? A situation where work remains undone because two men who are supposed to do it avoid doing it, as they take themselves as noble. ‫ خالیق بیلر‬، ‫ بالئخ بیلمسه‬، ‫سن چوره یی آت سویا‬ Literal Meaning: you throw the bread into sea, no matter fish does not see it, and important is that God knows it. En: good deed is never lost. ‫اهلل دان برکت‬، ‫سندن حرکت‬ Literal Meaning: moving from you, blessing from God. It is working hard which makes blessing. ‫ من بیلیرم که دیسن مصطفی‬، ‫سن دینده موص‬ Literal meaning: When you say “Mus”, I immediately understand that you want to say “Mustafa”. I know you so well that you need not to tell me about your intentions. ‫سنین کیمی دوستو اوالنا دشمن الزیم دئییل‬ Literal meaning: That who has a friend like you, does not need enemy. Some friends are even worse than enemies. ‫سنین کین یییاخ منیم کین اویناداخ‬ Literal meaning: let’s eat yours but play with mine.

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Let’s spend your wealth but take care of mine. ‫سو آخیب یولون تاپار‬ Literal meaning: water flows and find its way. En: Where there's a will there's a way ‫سو آیدین لیق دیر‬ Literal meaning: Water is vividness. ‫سو آیدینلیقدی جاال اوز قاپینا‬ Literal meaning: If water is brightness, then pour it before your own door. En: Physician, heal thyself ‫سو ایچینده سوسوز اولماخ‬ Literal Meaning: to be thirsty in the middle of water. Not to be able to make use of too many things one already has. ‫سو باشدان آشیب‬ Literal meaning: Water has overflown my head. Problems are now out of control. ‫سو بیر یئرده قالسا ایی لنر‬ Literal meaning: Water stinks if its remains in one place. Human is not to sit idle otherwise it turns to swamp. ‫سو گتیره ن دئییل دی گیلیف لری ده یاش ائله دی‬ Literal meaning: S/he was not capable of bringing water, on top of it, s/he made the water way wet. Not to be serious enough for doing a task, on top of it, destroying the equipment. ‫سوت گولونده اولماخ‬ Literal Meaning: to have the feeling of milk. To have no pains or problems in life. ‫سوتونن گلن سوموگونن گئدر‬ Literal Meaning: what comes with milk goes with bone. Our nature never changes. ‫سودا بوغوالن ایالنا ساریالر‬

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Literal Meaning: That who drowns, takes hold of snake. En: A drowning man will catch at a straw. ‫سودا بوغوالن سامان چؤپوندن یاپئشار‬ Literal Meaning: the one who drowns, takes hold of chaff. En: A drowning man will catch at a straw ‫سودان قایماق توتور‬ Literal Meaning: to extract butter from water. To be opportunist ‫ آت گورر آخسار‬،‫ سوسار‬،‫سو گورر‬ Literal meaning: When s/he sees water, feels thirsty, when s/he sees horse, starts limping. A greedy and opportunist person. ‫ سؤز گؤز آچار‬،‫سؤز سؤزی آچار‬ Literal Meaning: talking brings talking and talking open the eyes. Talking begets talking and it makes you wise. ‫آرشئن بئزی‬،‫سؤز سؤزی گتیره ر‬ Literal Meaning: talking brings talking, and peddler brings cloth. Talking begets talking ‫ نییه آجیشیرسان؟‬،‫سوغان یِئمَه میسن‬ Literal Meaning: If you have not eaten onion, then why are you burning? We react to blames, when we ourselves know that we have done something wrong. ‫سوز وار خلق ایچینده سوز وار خولق ایچینده‬ There are some words which should not be said in public and there are En: Wash your dirty linen at home ‫ سؤز وار دلر گچر‬، ‫سؤز وار گلر گچر‬ Literal Meaning: there are some words which come and go, there are words which thrust and go. En: Many words hurt more than swords. ‫سؤزو آت یره صاحبی گؤتوره ر‬

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Literal Meaning: drop the word on the ground, and its owner will pick it up. The addressee of an implicit remark usually knows that it is directed to her/him. ‫ سونرا چیخارت‬،‫سوزو آغزئندا پیشیر‬ Literal Meaning: First cook the words in your mouth and then let them out. Think first and then talk. ‫سُزون دوزون اوشاق دئیر‬ Literal Meaning: the right word is always said by child. En: Truth comes out of the mouths of babes and sucklings. Children and fools tell the truth. ‫سوزی اوجوز آلیپ باها ساتماخ‬ Literal Meaning: to buy the words cheap and sell them expensive. To listen to one’s talk apparently with good intention, but to save them for using against that person when the occasion rises. ‫سوماخ پاالندا سو داشئماخ‬ Literal Meaning: To carry water in a sieve En: To draw water in a sieve ‫سو باشدان بوالنیخ دیر‬ Literal meaning: Water is muddy from the bank. The issue is problematic fundamentally. ‫ اوندا دا لکه تاپارسان‬،‫سویادا دیقت ایله باخسان‬ Literal Meaning: Even if you look at water carefully, you can find a spot in it. Nobody is perfect. ‫سویو بُش اُلماخ‬ Literal Meaning: to have loose water (weak essence) Not to have strong character ‫سویو بوالندیریر بالیق توتا‬ Literal Meaning: S/he blurs the water to hunt fish. Opportunist people like chaos.

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‫تؤلکولر آسالن‬،‫سیچانالر پلنگ اوالمازالر‬ Literal Meaning: mice can’t be panthers, foxes can’t be lions. No one can go beyond the limit of his or her capabilities. ‫سیدر کافیر موفته اولسا اوزان اول‬ Literal Meaning: lie down and die if the cedar and camphor are cheap. Life is not easy and free and even death is not cheap. ‫سیزین پیشیک بیزیم ایتی بوغار‬ Literal Meaning: Ok, your cat strangles our dog. Ok, you are right, just stop quarrelling. ‫ه سریماخ‬....‫س‬ Literal Meaning: to twist people around one’s p…s To befool people and tease them. ‫سئرچه دن قناری اولماز‬ Literal Meaning: Canary is not born from sparrow. You can’t force a person to grow much beyond his/her real potentials. ‫سئرچه ندیر کلله پاچا سی نه اوال‬ Literal Meaning: sparrow itself is nothing, let alone its soup. Small thing does not have great benefit. ‫سئرچه نی قناری یرینه رحلییپ ساتماخ‬ Literal meaning: to dye a sparrow in yellow and sell it as canary. To present something fake as its original so as to deceive others. ‫سئشمر کی اجاالر‬ Literal Meaning: s/he does not shit lest s/he feels hunger. To be very stingy. ‫سئنان قول بویوندان آسالنار‬ Literal Meaning: the broken arm hangs on the neck A family always bears the pain of any of its members.

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‫ش‬ ‫شاطیر چورک دن یئملی دیر‬ Literal Meaning: Baker is more delicious than the bread. It refers to a situation where the person presenting someone or something is more attractive than the presented one. (It is usually used when one wants to say that the mother is more beautiful than daughter). ‫شاعر اوال بیلمزسن انان دوغماسا شاعیر میس سن اباالم هر ساری کوینه قیزیل‬ ‫اولماز‬ Literal Meaning: You can’t be a poet, until and unless your mother gives birth to you as a poet, you are copper my child, not everyone with yellow shirt is gold. En: All that glisters is not gold. ‫شاهید ده ایمان یوخ شاهدا عدالت‬ Literal Meaning: there is no faith in beauty, there is no justice in king Beauties are unfaithful and kings are unfair ‫ خرماندا یابا الشما یاسان‬،‫شرطی شوخومدا کس‬ Literal Meaning: put your conditions while plowing season not to fight in harvest season. Talk about the terms of work before you begin it. ‫شعر غزل دِماخ‬ Literal Meaning: to say poem and sonnet To say nonsense ‫شووه ره ن مزاج اولماخ‬ Literal Meaning: to have the nature of descurainia. To be moody ‫شیرین سوز ایالنی یوواسئندان چئخاردار‬ Literal Meaning: sweet words can take the snake out of its nest

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Kind tone of speaking can solve the worst problems. ‫شهرین دروازاسین باغالماق اوالر میلّتین آغزین یوخ‬ Literal Meaning: You can close the city gate, but you can’t close people’s mouth. It is impossible to stop people’s talking and judgment.

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‫صطظ‬ ‫صبر ایله حالوا پیشر ای قورا سندن‬ Literal Meaning: you green grape! With patience, halva is made of you. En: Patience is a plaster for all sores ‫طعنه لی سوزدن ایتی قئلئنج یاخشئدئر‬ Literal Meaning: better get the sharp sword than bitter mockery En: Many words hurt more than swords ‫ظولم ایله آباد اوالن عدل ایله ویران اوالر‬ Literal Meaning: the prosperity made by oppression, will be ruined by justice. Oppression has no good end. ‫ظولمون آخیری اولماز‬ Literal Meaning: oppressing has no end. Don’t be oppressive.

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‫عغ‬ ‫عاغئل عاغئلدان اؤتکم اوالر‬ Literal Meaning: two wits are better than one wit. En: Many men, many minds. Four eyes see more (better) than two ‫عجله ایشینه شیطان قارئشار‬ Literal Meaning: Satan meddle with the work done in hurry. En: haste makes waste. ‫عذاب مالکه سی اولماخ‬ Literal Meaning: to be the angle of agony To be others’ headache in a nonstop way ‫عقیللینین عقلی باشیندا عقیلسیزین عقلی گوزینن گوالغیندا‬ Literal Meaning: A wise man’s wisdom is in his head, but a stupid’s wisdom is in his ears and eyes. Unwise people trust what they hear and see rather than their logic. ‫عوضین بدل آددا اوغلو وار‬ Literal Meaning: “revenge” has a son known as “retaliation” Every action has a reaction. ‫گورسدرلر فیل کیمی‬،‫عیبین اولسا قیل کیمی‬ Literal Meaning: If you have a fault as small as a hair, they show it as big as elephant. People always exaggerate your faults. ‫ اوزگه سینین گولمهسی آجیغگَلَر‬،‫غملی آداما‬ Literal Meaning: For a sad person, the laughter of another person is resenting. Someone das gets resented even by others’ laughter ‫ یئنه وطن یاخشئ دئر‬،‫غوربت جنت اولسادا‬

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Literal Meaning: even if exile is heaven, home is far better. Home is sweeter than exile

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‫فق‬ ‫فینجان اُیناتماخ‬ Literal Meaning: to play with cups Not to be serious and be moody ‫قاپی همیشه بیر داباندا دوالنماز‬ Literal Meaning: The door never turns on the same hinge. Situations change and things will not remain the same always. ‫قادئن وار ائو یاپار قادئن وار ائو ییخار‬ Literal Meaning: there is a woman who builds house, there is a woman who destroys a house. Not all women are meant to be a good wife ‫ کیشنین یاالغی باققال دوکانی آچار‬، ‫قادئنئن یاالغی سمنی گویار‬ Literal Meaning: a foodie woman cooks Samanoo (wheat pudding), a foodie man opens a shop. Foodie people choose jobs which has to do with eating ‫ داغالری دومان آالر‬، ‫قارا باخت داغالرا چیخسا‬ Literal Meaning: If an unfortunate climbs the mountain, mist covers everywhere. En: An unfortunate man would be drowned in a teacup. ‫قارا قارغانئندا باالسی اوزونه خوشدور‬ Literal Meaning: even the black crow loves its baby En: Every mother thinks her own gosling a swan ‫قارداشالر ساواشدئالر ابله لر ایناندئالر‬ Literal Meaning: brothers fight, idiots believe. Blood is thick that is why the members of a family never get separate truly.

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‫قارقئشئن ایکی باشی اوالر‬ Literal Meaning: cursing has two ends The bad wills and curses one has for others might go back to that person himself/herself. ‫قاری گوجاالندا بورنونا کپنک گونار‬ Literal Meaning: When a woman gets old, the butterfly sits on her nose. When people get old, youngers usually tease them. ‫ اُز عقلون هارا گئتمیشدی؟‬،‫ خلق سنه دئدی خانئم‬،‫ قئزئم‬:‫قاری قئزئنا دییر‬ Literal Meaning: the woman tells her daughter: my dear! People called you “lady”, but why did you believe it? One should not overvalue himself /herself because of others’ praises. ‫قاقا اولمایان یئرده ایدیه قاقا د ئیر لر‬ Literal Meaning: where there is no food, sea-buckthorn is food. En: Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king ‫قانی قانی ایله یوماییب الر قانی سو ایله یویوبالر‬ Literal Meaning: Blood is not washed with blood, it is washed with water. Taking revenge is not right. ‫قره سودا چیراغ یاندیرمازالر‬ Literal Meaning: The lamp is not lit in dark waters. Don’t waste your time to convince an ignorant person. ‫ قئلئنجدان ایتی دیر‬،‫قلم‬ Literal Meaning: Pen is sharper than sword. Writing is more powerful than fighting. ‫ باالسی بادام ایچی‬، ‫قئز بادام دئر‬ Literal Meaning: Daughter is hazel, and her child is the core of hazel. Grandchildren are very lovely. ‫قئزی اوالن قیرمیزی دُن گیمز‬ Literal Meaning: the one who has a daughter, does not put on red dress.

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When you have a girl, you spend so much on her that nothing much is left for you as mother. ‫قیزیم سنه دئییره م گلینیم سن ائشیت‬ Literal Meaning: My daughter I am telling you, my daughter-in-law, you hear. To address somebody but to mean another to hear and understand. ‫قئش گئدر ئوزی گره لئخ کُموره گاالر‬ Literal Meaning: winter goes but it is the coal whose face remain black. hard days end anyway and the shame and bad fame remains for those who made it harder. ‫قورخان گوزه چوب دوشه ر‬ Literal Meaning: The chip goes in the eye that is overprotected. Overprotection brings more harm than good. ‫قورخموش آداما قویون باشی جوت گورونر‬ Literal Meaning: That who is scared, sees the head of goat double. En: once beaten, twice shy. ‫قولتوغا گارپز ورماخ‬ Literal Meaning: to give water melon to his/her under arms. To praise someone unrealistically in order to fool person. ‫قوناغ اِو ییه سینین دوه سی دیر‬ Literal Meaning: Guest is the camel of host. Guest must obey the host. ‫ ائو ییه سی هئچ بیرین‬، ‫قوناغ قوناغی سئومه ز‬ Literal Meaning: Guest does not like another guest, the host likes neither. Guest does not like another guest, the host likes neither. ‫قونشی آشی دادلی اوالر‬ Literal Meaning: Neighbor’s soup is more delicious. En: The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence ‫قونشو پایی یاخشی دی بیرگون سنده بیرگون منده‬

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Literal meaning: neighbor’s food is good, but one day at your home, one day at my home. Let’s not misuse another’s generosity. It is better to have mutual generosity, rather than one-sided generosity. ‫تویوغو دا غاز گلیر‬،‫قونشی قادئنی آدامئن گوزونه قئز گلیر‬ Literal Meaning: The neighbor’s wife seems like girl and its hen seems like goose. En: The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence ‫قونشی قونشودان سحر اویانماغی اؤرگشر‬ Literal meaning: neighbors learn waking up early from each other. Neighbors imitate each other’s behavior and deeds. ‫قونشی قونشویا باخارجانینی اودایاخار‬ Literal Meaning: Neighbor looks at other neighbor and put him/herself in fire. Neighbors imitate each other out of jealousy and envy even in wrong deeds. . ‫ بیر ایچی بوش گیردکانال‬، ‫قونشوم منی یاد ائله سین‬ Literal Meaning: May my neighbor think of me by an empty walnut. Important is be thought of by others not what they buy to prove it. ‫قویون اولمایان یئرده کچی یه حاج عبدالکریم آقا دئیرله‬ Literal meaning: when there is no sheep, the goat is called “Jadji Abdolkarim”. En: Half a loaf is better than no bread ‫ گویونون دیبینده اوالر‬، ‫قویو قازان‬ Literal Meaning: The one who digs well, is always at the bottom of the well. If you plan trouble for others, you will find yourself in it. ‫قیسمتدن آرتئخ یماغ الماز‬ Literal Meaning: one can’t eat more than kismet. En: no flying from fate He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned If God had meant us to fly he'd have given us wings

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‫قیصاص قیامته قالماز‬ Literal Meaning: Revenge happens before resurrection. People pay back for their wrong doings in this world.

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‫ک‬ ‫کاسیب اوشاغی گؤرمه میش باالسی اولمویاسان‬ Literal Meaning: May one never be the child of either a poor man or a upstart one. Poor and upstart are greedier. ‫کاسیب پول تاپسادا یئر تاپماز‬ Literal Meaning: The poor can’t find status, even if s/he finds money. Even if the poor earns big money, s/he won’t find prestige and high status. ‫کاسیب عقیلدن کاسیب اوالر که کاسیب اوالر‬ Literal Meaning: a poor man is poor because he has poor wisdom. What makes a man poor is not lack of money, but lack of wisdom. ‫ وارلییا اغول اولما‬،‫کاسیبا غول اول‬ Literal Meaning: be the servant of a poor man but not the son of a rich man Sometimes being the child of a rich man is no less than misery. ‫کاسیبی ده وه اوستونده بووه سانجار‬ Literal Meaning: The tarantula bites the poor on camel. Poor people are also unfortunate. ‫کاسیبین بیر اوغلو اولدو اونوندا بوینو ایری اولدو‬ Literal Meaning: The poor man finally had a son, but his nose was crooked. Poor people are also unfortunate. ‫کاسیبین گونو ایتین گونو‬ Literal Meaning: the life of a poor man, is the life of a dog. A poor man lives life in misery like a dog. ‫کافی کوف اشیتماخ‬

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Literal Meaning: to hear the “kaf” as “koof” (kaf is the same as “K” in English alphabet) To hear things incorrectly (due to age or hearing problem, or lack of attention). ‫ یاراشدئرار‬،‫کار ائشیدمز‬ Literal Meaning: Deaf can’t hear and likens. Old people or those have hearing problem always hear the words wrong and interpret as what they hear not what is said. ‫کچل باخار گوزگیه آدینی قویار اوزگیه‬ Literal Meaning: The bald looks at the mirror and calls others bald too. We judge others according to what we are. ‫ کورین آدینی قویالالر نورعلی‬،‫کچلین آدینی گویالالر زلفعلی‬ Literal Meaning: People call the bald, “Hair Ali”, and the blind “Light Ali”. People are usually given the titles which contradicts their real character. ‫ قصاب پیی آختارئر‬،‫کچی گالیپ جان هایینا‬ Literal Meaning: The goat is worried about its life, the butcher is looking for fat. An opportunist person who even looks for benefit from others’ misery. ‫کچی نین اجلی گلنده باشین چوبانین چوماغینا سورتر‬ Literal Meaning: When the goat’s end is close, its rubs its head to shepherd’s stick. When one’s end comes, s/he starts looking for trouble. ‫کچی نین قطوری بوالقین گوزوندن سو ایچر‬ Literal Meaning: The ugly goat drinks water from water bank. Ugly people are luckier. ‫ کندی چاپ‬،‫کدخدانی گور‬ Literal Meaning: See the chief steward, and rob the village. Give bribe to the head of a society and treat that society as you want. ‫کفنین جیبی اولماز‬ Literal Meaning: shroud had no pockets.

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En: shroud had no pockets. ‫ ایکی گوز بیری اگری بیری دوز‬، ‫کور آالهدان نه ایستر‬ Literal Meaning: What does a blind ask from God? Two eyes, one direct and the other squint. En: Half a loaf is better than no bread ‫کورا گئجه گوندوز بیردیر‬ Literal Meaning: For the blind, night and day are the same. For someone living in misery, every day is the same. ‫کور توتدوغون بوراخماز‬ Literal Meaning: The blind does not release what s/he sticks to. An stubborn person never changes her/his idea. ‫کور قوشون روزوسون اهلل وئره ر‬ Literal Meaning: God gives the sustenance of a blind bird. God takes care of everyone’s sustenance. ‫کوزه چی سینئق قابدان سوایچر‬ Literal Meaning: The potter drinks from broken ewe. The cobbler always wears the worst shoes ‫کوزَه تزه اوالندا سویو سوُیوق ساخالر‬ Literal meaning: ewe hold water cold as long as it is new. Things have better functions when they are new. ‫کوزه سو یولوندا سئنار‬ Literal Meaning: the pitcher goes often to the well but it is broken at last. Our life is spent for our goals. ‫ بویوکدن عطا‬،‫کیچیکدن خطا‬ Literal Meaning: The younger makes mistakes and the elder forgives. Adults should be always forgiving. ‫کیشی توپوردوعون یاالماز‬ Literal Meaning: man should not lick what he spits. It is not right to take back what you have promised. ‫کیمسه آتاسی اؤلن قدر یاسلی دئیر‬

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Literal Meaning: No one is as mournful as the one who has lost his father. No one can feel the pain as much as the person who is in trouble. ‫ کیمینین یارماسی یاوان غینر‬،‫کیمینین یاغی گلر یاغ اوسته‬ Literal Meaning: One’s oil increases day by day, One’s bulgur boils alone. Poor people remain poorer, but rich people become richer day by day.

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‫گ‬ ‫گازان گازانا دییر گوتون قره‬ Literal Meaning: the pot calls the other pots “black-bottomed”. En: the pot calls the kettle black. ‫گدر او گوزللیخ سنه ده گالماز‬ Literal Meaning: This beauty will go and won’t stay for you too. Physical beauty is temporary. ‫ دییر اتاق ایریدی‬،‫گلین اوینیه بیلمیر‬ Literal Meaning: bride can’t dance and says “room is lopsided” En: bad workman quarrels with his tools. ‫گلدی گاشئن دوزلده ووردی گوزون چیخارتدی‬ Literal Meaning: she wanted to make the eyebrow, but made the eye blind. To destroy something while trying to build something else ‫گلین اوجاغا چئکر‬ Literal Meaning: The bride is like her mother-in -law (in behavior and destiny) Brides and daughter-in-laws are usually same in behavior and destiny ‫گمیده اتوروپ گمیچی گوزی چیخارتماخ‬ Literal Meaning: to stay in ship and fight with Capitan. To mess up with someone, our life is at his/ her mercy. ‫گمینین ایشینی گمیچی بیله ر‬ Literal Meaning: It is the captain who knows the works in the ship. Every work should be done by its professionals ‫گوتونه دییر مندن گلمه ای ورسین‬ Literal Meaning: S/he says her/his ass: don’t come with me, you stink. An arrogant person who even can’t tolerate her/his own blood.

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‫گورول آما یاغما‬ Literal Meaning: Thunder but don’t rain Give only verbal support but don’t get involved in others’ affair. ‫گوز گوردوغونا آلئشار‬ Literal Meaning: Eyes get used to what they see People define life as they experience it. ‫گوز گوردویونه اینانار‬ Literal meaning: people believe in what they see. People trust their eyes more than their wisdom. ‫ گوتوم سایما‬، ‫گوالغیم اشیت‬ Literal Meaning: hear my ear, don’t care about it my ass. One should not care much about too many things one hear. ‫ گلر باشئنا‬، ‫گولمه قونشونا‬ Literal Meaning: Don’t laugh at your neighbor, it might happen to you too. Don’t mock people for what has happened to them as it might happen to you as well. ‫گونلی بالئخ ایستین گوتون گویار بوزلو سویا‬ Literal Meaning: the one who wishes for fish, should put his ass in cold water. En: who that will eat the kernel, must crack the nut That will thrive, must rise at five He that would eat the fruit must climb the tree He that would have eggs, must endure the cackling of hens He who could catch fish must not mind getting wet He who would search for pearls, must dive below ‫گؤنو سویا وئرماخ‬ Literal Meaning: To let the water take the leather. To destroy chances or relationship in a way that is not possible to amend it. ‫گورخان بتر وورار‬ Literal Meaning: the one who is afraid, bits harder.

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Those who feel greater danger, they take stronger defensive actions. ‫گورخانی گواالرالر‬ Literal Meaning: the one who is scared, is chased If you show your fear, they will attack you more. ‫ ادامئن یره باخانئندان‬،‫گورخ سویون اخارئندان‬ Literal Meaning: be careful about running deep waters and the people who look down. En: Be aware of a silent dog and still water. ‫گورخولی باش سالمت اوالر‬ Literal Meaning: the head which is scared is healthy. En: caution is the parent of safety. ‫ قورد اوالر‬، ‫گورت باالسی‬ Literal Meaning: The cub of a wolf becomes wolf. Children inherit the bad behaviors of parents in stronger ways. En: Like parents, like children ‫ قولی بیابانیه راست گلدوخ‬،‫گورتدان قورتولدوغ‬ Literal Meaning: We get rid of wolf but got trapped by the desert monster. We got rid of bad but got trapped by worse. ‫ قویون ساخالماز‬، ‫گورتدان قورخان‬ Literal Meaning: That who is afraid of wolf, does not keep sheep. En: A cat in glove catches no flies A close mouth catches no flies ‫پاخئل دا آرتار‬،‫گورد آرتسا‬ Literal Meaning: If the wolf made progress, the jealous would make progress too. Jealous people make no progress in their life. ‫گورد دومانلئغی سئوه ر‬ Literal meaning: wolf likes the foggy weather. Opportunist person likes chaos ‫گورو گورو قوربانئن اولماخ‬ Literal Meaning: To be your sacrifice drily.

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To give only verbal support rather than real help. ‫ آما وطن سیز اولماز‬،‫گوز سوز یاشاماق اوالر‬ Literal Meaning: One can live without eyes but not without homeland. Homeland is more valuable than anything. ‫گوش اوچوتماخ‬ Literal Meaning: To fly the birds. To be playful. ‫گوزل آقا گوزلدی ووردی چیچیک ده چیخارتدی‬ Literal Meaning: the beauty of Mr. beauty was not enough, he got smallpox on top of it. Misfortunes find an unfortunate person one after another. ‫گومشیا امید اوالن شام سئز گاالر‬ Literal Meaning: the one who pins his hope on neighbor, will have no dinner En: he goes long barefoot, that waits for dead man’s shoes ‫گیر مجنونون گوزونه باخ لیالنین اوزونه‬ Literal Meaning: go inside Leyli’s eye and look at Majnun’s face En: beauty lies in lover’s eye ‫گییَن ایله یییَن این کین اهلل وئره ر‬ Literal Meaning: God bestows the share of the one who eats and the one who wears. Everyone human in this world is bestowed with sustenance. ‫گئجه اودونا گئدن چوخ اوالر‬ Literal Meaning: There are many people who go to collect wood at night. Don’t be quick to judge. Wait to see how the events turn out. ‫گئجه سول یاتان سحر سول دورار‬ Literal Meaning: The one who sleeps on the left side, wakes up on the left side. Going to bed in bad mood at night, makes one wakes up in bad mood in the morning.

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‫گئجه سیالحلی گونوز کوالهلی گرک‬ Literal Meaning: One should keep a gun by his side at night, and have a hat in day time. Always take the precautionary measures. ‫ قیشدا بوستان اکن‬، ‫گئجه شهره گئدن چوخ اوالر‬ Literal Meaning: There are many who go to city at night, there are many who plant farm in winter. Don’t be quick to judge. ‫گئجه گئدر گونوز گلر‬ Literal Meaning: Night goes, day comes. Sooner or later truth will come out. ‫گئجه نین خئیریندن گونوزون شری یاخجی دیر‬ Literal Meaning: The evil coming during day is better than the benefit coming at night. It is better to deal with a brave enemy who fights face to face rather than a cunny one who you don’t see. ‫گئدنین گتماخ اولماز‬ Literal Meaning: You can’t go with someone who has gone. You can’t die with someone departed. You must keep living. ‫گئرخ گازانا بیر دامازلئخ اولماخ‬ Literal Meaning: to be a poisonous drop enough for forty pots. A person capable of spoiling many good relationships. ‫گئرئالن گوشون داندی‬ Literal Meaning: the one who gets killed belongs to the army Even doing a small part of a big task is a big gain. ‫گئچمه نامرد کؤرپوسوندن قوی آپارسئن سل سنی یاتما تولکو دالداسئندا قوی‬ . ‫یسین اصالن سنی‬ Literal Meaning: Don’t pass over the bridge of a cunning man, let the water take you. Don’t sleep behind a fox, let the lion eat you. Better to die but not ask for help from a cunning man person.

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‫لم‬ ‫التام التام ناراحاتام‬ Literal Meaning: I am thug and I am looking for trouble. Refers to a thug who looks for trouble. ‫ بانالسا واخت آنالماز‬،‫الری خوروز بانالماز‬ Literal Meaning: The fighting rooster, does not crow, when it crows, it does not understand time. A fool is usually silent, but when s/he talks, it is untimely ‫الی الی بیلیرسن نیه یاتمیرسان؟‬ Literal Meaning: If you know how to sing lullaby, why don’t you sleep yourself? En: Physician, heal thyself. ‫ دونه نی دئمه بویونو ده‬،‫لپه نی دئمه دویونو ده‬ Literal Meaning: Don’t say split peas say rice, don’t say yesterday, say today. Don’t talk about the past, talk about present. ‫ اَلینی آتاشا اوزاتما‬،‫ماشا ورا کن‬ Literal Meaning: Don’t stretch your hand to fire as long as there is a fire tongs. En: Why keep a dog and bark yourself? ‫مال گئدر بیریانا ایمان گئدر مین یانا‬ Literal Meaning: Property goes one side, the faith goes thousands of

sides. Take care of your property not to see others as thief. ‫مالّا اُلدی مکتب داغیلدی‬

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Literal Meaning: Mullah died, the school scattered. A community scatters after it loses its head. ‫محبت قیچی سی هر شیی کسر‬ Literal Meaning: The scissors of kindness can cut everything. With kindness one can remove all barriers. ‫قونشووی اقوری توتما‬، ‫مالیوی بک ساخال‬ Literal Meaning: take good care of your property not to make your neighbor thief. Take care of your property not to take your neighbor as thief. ‫مردار اسگییه هش زاد اولماز‬ Literal Meaning: nothing happens to a dirty piece of cloth. Nothing happens to a bad person. ‫مردی گاچا گاچا نامرد اِلماخ‬ Literal Meaning: to turn a good man to a tyrant by chasing him. To turn a good person to bad one by steadily oppressing him/her. ‫مرند اولوسو کیمین اوزاتماخ‬ Literal Meaning: To linger like the dead of Marand. To linger doing something as lingering the funeral ceremony in Marand (a town in Azerbaijan). ‫ن کسر اوز الینه ایش ورر‬......‫مسلمانئین ایشی اولماز س‬ Literal Meaning: an idle Muslim cuts his p…s and makes trouble for himself. En: The devil finds work for idle hands to do ‫مسلمانئن سونکی عقلی‬ Literal Meaning: Muslim’s second thought. Muslims don’t give deep thought at the beginning and then regret the consequences. En: Wise after the event. ‫مئریغا دییر چراغ پوفله‬ Literal Meaning: S/he asks the harelip to blow the lamp. To ask an incapable person to do something. ‫ سن دنه انیف‬، ‫من دیینده انیف سن دمه انیف‬

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Literal Meaning: When I say “anif”, you don’t repeat “anif”, you repeat “anif”. En: Do as I say, not as I do. ‫موص موص دیینجان دنه موصطافا‬ Literal Meaning: Instead of saying “Mus Mus” say “Mustafa”. Rather than lingering the speech, be right to the point.

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‫ن‬ ‫ناهاردان بللی دی شاما نه وار‬ Literal Meaning: It is clear from lunch what we are going to have for dinner. En: A good beginning makes a good ending ‫نفسی ایستی یئرده ن چئخئر‬ Literal Meaning: His/her breath is coming from hot place. To have irrational expectations. ‫نوخود فالی آچماق‬ Literal Meaning: To tell fortune by peas. To be on dilemma about doing something. ‫نرگس بیلدی تبریز بیلدی‬ Literal Meaning: if Narges knew, Tabriz would know If a gossiping person knew something about you, s/he would spread it among everyone. ‫ میثگالنئان چئخار‬، ‫نوخوشلوخ باتمانئنان گلر‬ Literal Meaning: disease comes in baatmaan and leaves in gram. Disease has a hard and sudden beginning but, it takes long to get to leave body. ‫نه فایدا بیز قالمئشئق بویاندا کورپو قالئپ اویاندا‬ Literal meaning: What is the use? We are here and the bridge is left on the other side. What we wish is beyond our access. ‫نَه کی وارین هُال گُشماخ‬ Literal Meaning: to attach his whole family to plow (to plough the land)

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To torture the person. (To push the plow to plough the land -which is done by bull- is an unbearably difficult task for human being, therefore, to attach the plow to someone and his / family means giving extreme torture) !!!‫نَه یاتدین نه یوخو گورسن؟‬ Literal Meaning: how long did you sleep to have a dream?!!! To judge a situation in a strangely quick way without having good knowledge about it. ‫نیت هارا منزل اورا‬ Literal Meaning: wherever the wish, there is the destination. Our wishes direct us towards our goal.

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‫و‬ ‫واخت انسانا هر شئی اؤیرَدَر‬ Literal Meaning: Time teaches human everything. En: Time will tell ‫واخت غنیمتدیر‬ Literal Meaning: Time is gain. Time is Gold. ‫واختسئز بانالیان خوروزون باشینی کسرلر‬ Literal Meaning: The rooster which crows untimely becomes beheaded. Someone who speaks when s/he should not, s/he loses head. ‫واختسئز گلن قوناق اؤز کیسه سیندن یئیر‬ Literal Meaning: The guest who comes not on time, eats from her own pocket. An untimely guest is not served. ‫واختینی ایتیرَن بختینی ایتیرر‬ Literal Meaning: The one which loses its time, loses its chance. En: There's a time and a place for everything ‫واختیندا گؤرولمَمیش ایش همیشه گؤرولممَیش قاالر‬ Literal Meaning: The job which is not done on time, remains undone forever. En: Procrastination is the thief of time ‫ یوخدور پولون آچیقدیر یولون‬، ‫واردیر پولون هامی قولون‬ Literal Meaning: If you have money, everyone is your servant, if you don’t have money your way is open. En: money talks. ‫ کاسیب اولوب شاد خرّم یاشاماق یاخشیدیر‬، ‫وارلی اولوب غم غصّه ایله یاشاماقدانسا‬

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Literal Meaning: It is better to live poor and happy rather than rich and sad. Happiness is better than wealth. ‫ کاسیب آ اولدوغونو‬،‫وارلی اومدوغونو یئیر‬ Literal Meaning: The rich eats what s/he has, the poor eats what s/he has. Poor people live as they afford but poor people live as they wish. ‫ کاسیب دیزینی‬،‫وارلی کیسه سینی دؤیر‬ Literal Meaning: The rich beats its wallet, the poor beats its knee. Rich people have their wealth to count on but poor people has none. ‫ یوخسول گیینده دییه رلر هاردان تاپدین ؟‬، ‫وارلی گیینده دییه رلر موبارکدیر‬ Literal Meaning: When the rich puts on, people say: happy new clothes, when the poor puts on, people say: where from did you bring it? ‫وارلیلیغا تَلسَن کاسیبلیغا تئز دوشر‬ Literal Meaning: The one who is in hurry to be rich soon, will be poor soon instead. Haste makes waste. ‫ وارسیزدا وارلی اوالر‬، ‫وارلی واریندان پای وئرسه‬ Literal Meaning: If the rich shares his/her wealth, the poor also becomes rich. Sharing eradicates poverty. ‫وارلئخدا دوست اولما یوخلوخدا کنار‬ Literal Meaning: Don’t be people’s friend while they are rich, and don’t avoid them as they become poor. Don’t be friend with people just for their money. ‫ کاسیبین آروادی اؤلنده یورغان‬،‫وارلئنئن آروادی اؤلنده یورغان دؤشَگی تزَلنَر‬ ‫دؤشکسیزقاالر‬ Literal Meaning: When the rich’s wife dies, his bed becomes renewed, when the poor’s wife dies, he loses his bed. Poor people are also misfortunate.

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‫ یوخسول کؤنَگینی پارچاالر‬، ‫وارلئنئن الینی پیچاق کسسه‬ Literal Meaning: If the knife cuts the hand of the rich, it slices the shirt of the poor. Poor people are also unfortunate. ‫ کاسیبیندان تورپاغیندان یول‬، ‫وارلئنئن تورپاغیندان چای کئچر‬ Literal Meaning: Through the land of rich passes the river, through the land of poor passes the road. Rich people are more fortunate. ‫وارلئنئن چؤرَگی کاسیبین چنَه سینی یورار‬ Literal Meaning: The rich’s bread tires out the poor’s jaws. Poor people can’t adopt the life of style of rich. ‫وارلئنئن خوروزودا یومورتالیار‬ Literal Meaning: Even the rooster of a rich lays egg. Rich people are luckier. ‫واری اوالن تاخار یوخو اوالن باخار‬ Literal Meaning: Those who have, put on (accessories), those who don’t have, just look. Those who have wealth, take joy, those who don’t have just look on. ‫ اؤزون باهالی اول‬، ‫وارئن اوجوز ایسه‬ Literal Meaning: If your property is valueless, be expensive yourself. If you are not rich, at least try to have a valuable character. ‫وارئندی گیریش یوخوندو سوروش‬ Literal Meaning: If you have, get involved, if you don’t have go away. You are welcome as long as you have money. ‫وارئنی وئرن اوتانماز‬ Literal Meaning: the one who gives what s/he has never feels shy. People spend and live as much as they afford. ‫وارئنی وئرَنین کیسه سی بوش قاالر‬ Literal Meaning: The one who gives his property, has his bag empty. That who gives his/her money away, becomes poor. ‫وجدان بازاردا ساتیلماز‬

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Literal Meaning: Conscious is not sold in the market. Not everyone has Conscious. ‫وزیری قارغا اوالنین آغزی زیبیللیکده اوالر‬ Literal Meaning: That whose adviser is raven, his/her mouth is in dunk. Bad friend or company leads to misery. ‫ اولسا وجدانی اولماز‬، ‫وطنی سئومَیَن انسان اولماز‬ Literal Meaning: That who does not love his homeland is not human, even if s/he become human, s/he won’t have Conscious. The one without love for his/her homeland can’t be considered as human. ‫ جنّتدیر‬، ‫وطن ویرانه ده اولسا‬ Literal Meaning: Homeland is heaven even if it is ruined. En: East, west, home's best ‫ قابینا دا سیچارالر‬، ‫وئرن آشی ایچیلر‬ Literal Meaning: The given soup is eaten and its dish is shit (defecated) in. When you give wealth away, you will have no value. ‫وئرن ال آالن الین اوستونده اوالر‬ Literal Meaning: The giving hand is on the taking hand. Someone who gives away, is more prosperous than the one who is used only to take from others. ‫وئرن اِل ساخالر‬ Literal Meaning: The giving hand keeps the people. Generosity makes friends. ‫ وئرمَییب یامان اول‬، ‫وئریب یامان اولونجا‬ Literal Meaning: Instead of giving and being bad, don’t give and be bad. If you are considered as bad in any case, don’t give your money away and be bad. ‫وورا بیلمَیَن داشین بؤیویوندن یاپیشار‬ Literal Meaning: That who can’t beat, sticks to the biggest stone.

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En: A barking dog never bites ‫ووردی داشا چئخدی باشا‬ Literal Meaning: (s/he) beat it on stone and brought to end. s/he spend the whole money and finished it quickly.

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‫ه‬ ‫هامئسی بیر بئزین قئراغئدئالر‬ Literal Meaning: They are all the margins of the same fabric. These people are similar in character. ‫هامنی بَزر اُزی لوت گزر‬ Literal Meaning: s/he embellish others, but walks modest him/herself A person who takes care of others and their needs but ignores her/himself. ‫ پاپاغینی آسیر‬، ‫هارایا میخ چالیرام‬ Literal Meaning: Wherever I nail down, s/he hangs his/her hat. An opportunist person who ambushes to benefit from others’ hard efforts. ‫ اوردا باشدی‬، ‫هاردا آشدی‬ Literal Meaning: Wherever there is soup, s/he is head. An opportunist person who looks for gratuitous benefits. ‫ اوردا اوالر نیکبت ایش‬، ‫هاردا گؤردون درویش‬ Literal Meaning: Wherever you see a dervish, there is a bad work there. It conveys the hypocrisy of religious or spiritual people. ‫هاینان گلن هوینان گئدر‬ Literal Meaning: The one coming in hullabaloo, goes in hullabaloo. The chaotic begging usually ends up with chaos. ‫هر اوخویان مالنصرالدین اولماز‬ Literal Meaning: Not everyone who reads becomes Nasreddin. En: All that glisters is not gold ‫هرکس ساغ اولسون اوزونه‬ Literal Meaning: May everyone be healthy for himself/herself.

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En: Every man for himself ‫هرکیم اششه اولدی سنده پاالنی اول‬ Literal Meaning: Whoever is the donkey, you become the saddle. Don’t try to take the leading role and always try to be subordinate so as to be in the safe side. ‫هر گوزلده بیر عایئب اوالر‬ Literal Meaning: Every beautiful has a fault. Nobody is perfect ‫هر نه توکسن آشا چیخار قاشئغئوا‬ Literal Meaning: whatever you put in soup, it will come in your own spoon Later or sooner we will see the results of our own deeds En: As you brew, so must you drink As you make your bed, so must you lie on it As you sow, so shall you reap ‫ دوستون کُهنه سی‬،‫هر زادئن تازا سی‬ Literal Meaning: Everything is good when new, but the friend is better when old. Old friends are invaluable. ‫هرزه سوزون مرزه جوابی اوالر‬ Literal Meaning: the answer to a nasty (bitter) word is savory (bitter). En: Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer ‫هر کس یری اُزونه طرف گازار‬ Literal Meaning: everyone digs the land towards himself. En: Every miller draws water to his own mill. ‫هره کسین اؤز روزی سی وار‬ Literal Meaning: Everyone has its own sustenance. God gives everyone sustenance. ‫ اونودا بیچرسن‬، ‫هر نه اَکسن‬ Literal Meaning: Whatever you sow, you reap. En: You reap what you sow ‫ اونالدا اؤلچولورسن‬، ‫هر نه ایله اؤلچورسن‬

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Literal Meaning: With whatever you judge others, you will be judged with the same thing. You will be judged as you judge. ‫هش پیشیه دده سی احسانئندا سیچان توتماز‬ Literal Meaning: no cat hunts mouse for its father’s charity. No one does a good for others for free. ‫هش کس ائوز یوغوردونا توش دئمز‬ Literal Meaning: no one calls his own yoghurt sour. En: every ass loves to hear himself bray. Each bird loves to hear himself sing. ‫هش کیمین آهی یئرده قالماز‬ Literal Meaning: Nobody’s wailing, remains on the ground. Someday justice will be done for those who have suffered. ‫هش گول تیکان سئز اولماز‬ Literal Meaning: No flower is without thorn. Nobody is perfect. ‫هم خدانی ایستیر هم خرمانی‬ Literal Meaning: S/he wants both God and date. You can’t ask two things at the same time. You should choose one. ‫همشه شعبان بیر دفعه ده رمضان‬ Literal Meaning: It is always Shaban, let it be once Ramadan. Let’s experience something out of routine.

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‫ی‬ ‫یا آدئوا الیق یا آدینا الیق‬ Literal Meaning: either something worthy of your name, or something worthy of his/her name One should behave either according to his/her own value or the addressee’s value. ‫یاتان اکوزون دالیسیندا اویاخ گورد اوالر‬ Literal meaning: behind a sleeping ox, there is an awake wolf. There is always someone sneaky who ambushes to misuse other’s negligence. ‫یاتانی اویاتمامازالر‬ Literal Meaning: not to let the unaware person to wake up. En: Let sleeping dogs lie ‫یا حسن کئچل یا کئچل حسن‬ Literal Meaning: Either “the bald Hasan” or “Hasan the bald”. No difference when one can do something either way. ‫یاخشئ دوست اوز دوستونون گوزگوسودور‬ Literal Meaning: A good friend is the mirror of her/his friend. A good friend is honest with his/her friend. ‫یاخشی دوست یامان گونده بللنر‬ Literal Meaning: A good friend proves his/herself in bad day. En: a friend in need is a friend in deed. ‫پیس قادین عومور آزالدار‬،‫یاخشی قادین عومور اوزادار‬ Literal Meaning: A good woman linger the life, a bad woman makes the life short. A good Jack makes a good Jill. ‫یاخشی قیزدان یاخشی گلین اوالر‬ Literal Meaning: A good girl makes a good wife.

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A girl who is good for her parents is usually a good wife. ‫ اوزاغا گئتمه جانیم چئخیر‬، ‫یاخینا گلمه اییین گلیر‬ Literal Meaning: don’t approach me, you stink, don’t go far I will die. To be shaky in feelings towards someone. ‫ اوزاغداکی آرپادان یاخشئدئر‬، ‫یاخئنداکی ات‬ Literal Meaning: A grass nearby is better than the grass far away. En: A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. ‫یازدا آغالمیان گشدا گولمز‬ Literal Meaning: That who does not cry in summer, never laughs in winter. En: No pain no gain No money no honey ‫یاشدا یانار قورونون اودونا‬ Literal Meaning: The wet burns by the fire of dry. A good person usually pays for the mistakes of a bad person. ‫یاغئشدان گورتولدوخ دولیه راست گلدوخ‬ Literal Meaning: to survive from rain but get trapped by storm. To be trapped by a worse problem while trying to run away from a bad one. ‫یاغماسا دا گورولدور‬ Literal Meaning: even if s/he does not rain, at least s/he is thundering. S/he supports verbally even if s/he can’t do anything in practice. ‫یارئسی یئر آلتئندادی‬ Literal Meaning: Half of her/his is under ground. To be extremely sneaky person. ‫یاالنچی تاماحکاری توالر‬ Literal Meaning: The liar deceives the greedy. A greedy person is usually beguiled by the lies of a phony man. ‫یاالنچئنئن حافیظه سی اولماز‬ Literal Meaning: The liar does not have memory. Liar usually does not have memory. ‫یامان گونون عمرو آز اوالر‬

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Literal Meaning: Bad days have short life. Hard days come to end quickly. ‫ گلسین ایشئغی‬،‫یانسن چیراغی‬ Literal Meaning: May his/her lamp burns and its light come. Better be far from each other and hear good news rather than being close and arguing. ‫یای وار قئش وار چوخ ایش وار‬ Literal Meaning: there is summer, there is winter, there is a lot to do Be patient, there is so much to do. ‫یتیمه وای وای دین چخ االر چره ورن الماز‬ Literal Meaning: there are so many people who feel pity for an orphan but none feeds him/her. People show sympathy to orphans but practically they don’t do anything to lessen their pains. ‫ باشی داشا چاتار‬، ‫یتیمین آغزی آشا چاتاندا‬ Literal Meaning: When the mouth of orphan reaches to soup, his/her

head reaches to stone. The orphan dies right the time her/his life starts to be better and easier. ‫یئددی آرخین سویونو بیر آرخا جاالمازالر‬ Literal Meaning: Don’t fill the water of seven spring in one spring.

Don’t assign someone a task which is beyond his/her capability. ‫یئددی دره قوخوالرین تولکوبیلر‬ Literal meaning: the fox knows the smell of seven valleys Those who travel more, know more ‫یتدی ده اوینامیان یتمیش ده اوینار‬ Literal Meaning: the one who does not play at seven, plays at seventy Human should experience everything at its right age otherwise it will pop up at mature age as a complex. ‫یئددی قوردابیر چاریق نئیلَسین ؟‬ Literal meaning: what can do a pair of shoe to seven wolves? What can someone helpless do when surrounded among many enemies?

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‫یئتنه یئتیر یئتمَیَنه داش آتیر‬ Literal meaning: s/he beats who is close, and throws stone to those who are far. To have problem with everyone. ‫یئددی فرسیز اوغولدان بیر فرسیز قیز یاخشیدیر‬ Literal Meaning: It is better to have one useless daughter rather than seven useless sons. ‫یتدیه گلمیین یتمیشه گلمز‬ Literal Meaning: that who does not become mature at seven, won’t be mature at seventy. En: A fool at forty is a fool indeed. ‫ امامین باشیندان گالما‬،‫یزیدین آشیندان‬ Literal Meaning: Don’t miss the soup for Yazid and the head of Imam (Hussein). Try to socialize with everyone. ‫یورغانا بورون ائلینن سورون‬ Literal Meaning: Get wrapped in the quilt and move with the folk. Don’t be the odd one among folk. ‫ بیر اللها یالوار‬، ‫یوز ایرمی دورت مین پیغمبر یالوارماخ یرینه‬ Literal Meaning: Instead of imploring one hundred twenty four messengers, just implore one God. En: If you want a thing done well, do it yourself ‫ آیران توکولسه نه یی قاالر؟‬، ‫یوقورت توکولسه یئری قاالر‬ Literal Meaning: If the yoghurt pours, it leave spot, what will the butter milk leave if it pours? Hard effort have some results, what would be the result of little or no effort? ‫یولداشئن یاخچئسی آداما قلیه داشی یدیردر‬ Literal Meaning: the best friend makes you eat hematite Don’t trust your friends fully. ‫یولداش اودی ساشمیا دریا اولوب داشمیا‬

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Literal meaning: Friend is the one who never bites and never become overflowing sea. A good friend is tolerant and honest. ‫ گورن دسین ها بله‬،‫یولداشیوی باب اله‬ Literal Meaning: choose good friends, so that others praise you En: A man is known by his friends ‫یومورتاسی ترسه دوشوب‬ Literal Meaning: its egg has been mixed (with other eggs). S/he is confused. ‫یومورتاسیندان چیخمامیشدان باش یارئر‬ Literal Meaning: it has started smashing others’ head even before hatching To be aggressive even at very young ages. ‫یووپ یووپ آخیرین مندارالماخ‬ Literal Meaning: to wash and wash and make it dirty at the end. To give a lot of effort to do something but destroy all the efforts at the end. ‫یخیالنا بیر تپیه وورماخ‬ Literal Meaning: To kick the one who is about to fall. To give fatal blow to someone who is deeply is trouble.