Across Afghanistan, proverbs are a valued part of speaking, both publicly and in conversations. Afghans "use proverbs in their daily conversations far more than Westerners do, and with greater effect".[1] The most extensive proverb collections in Afghan languages are in Pashto and Dari, the two official languages in Afghanistan.
Pashto is the native tongue of Afghanistan's largest ethnic group, the Pashtuns, who are also the second biggest ethnic group in Pakistan. Pashto has the oldest and largest collections of proverbs. The Dari, which is a variety of Persian spoken in Iran and Tajikistan. A broader, more contextualized, study of Afghan proverbs would include comparisons of Afghan proverbs with Persian proverbs from Iran (for which several volumes are available in English) and with Tajik proverbs (e.g. comparing with those in Bell 2009) from Tajikistan.
Tajikistan. So far, collections of proverbs in Afghan languages are available in English translation for at least four Afghan languages: Dari, Pashto, Pashai...
these zarbul masalha deeply reflect Afghan culture. U.S. Navy Captain Edward Zellem pioneered the use of Afghanproverbs as a positive relationship-building...
Afghanproverbs as a positive relationship-building tool during the war in Afghanistan, and in 2012 he published two bilingual collections of Afghan proverbs...
Persian language spoken in Afghanistan. Dari is the Afghan government's official term for the Persian language; it is known as Afghan Persian or Eastern Persian...
women usually write the traditional Afghan poetry form, consisting of two lines of rhyme, called landay. Afghanproverbs are generally simple, concrete, and...
Afghan cuisine is influenced to a certain extent by Persian, Central Asian and Indian cuisines due to Afghanistan's close proximity and cultural ties...
to Afghan music online #1 Afghan Music & Entertainment Site Online Afghan Music & Entertainment Portal Audio clips - traditional music of Afghanistan. French...
styles and flavors of contemporary Afghan designs. The national dress is the fusion of different ethnic groups in Afghanistan. The styles can be subdivided...
20, 2016). "Chess". www.afghan-web.com. Retrieved 2024-03-23. "Koresh, other traditional games begin in Kunduz". Pajhwok Afghan News. 1 July 2023. Retrieved...
Sport in Afghanistan is managed by the Afghan Sports Federation. Currently, cricket and association football (soccer) are the most popular sports in Afghanistan...
children entitled AfghanProverbs Illustrated, and a companion book of Pashto proverbs entitled Mataluna: 151 Afghan Pashto Proverbs. Zellem wrote the...
up the Afghan people. The former Afghan National Anthem and the Afghan Constitution (before 2021) each mention fourteen of them. The term "Afghan" is synonymous...
thousands of people entered that day. Afghan Film also known as Afghan Film Organization (AFO) were former Afghanistan's state-run film company. It was established...
southern and eastern Afghanistan, and some isolated pockets of far eastern Iran near the Afghan border. It has official status in Afghanistan and the Pakistani...
Pashto literature and poetry Afghan literature Culture of Afghanistan "Afghanistan Online: A Touch of Afghan Poetry". www.afghan-web.com. 12 March 2018. Retrieved...
Afghan art has spanned many centuries. In contrast to its independence and isolation in recent centuries, ancient and medieval Afghanistan spent long periods...
to a vast range of empires over the last two millennia. The diversity of Afghan history allows for the diverse and at the same time unique style that exists...
parallels – not referring to the parable – can be found in the following proverbs A blessing in disguise Bad luck often brings good luck. Every cloud has...
literature by writing several books of prose. Here is a list of Pashto Proverbs (Pashto: د پښتو متلونه): Amir Kror Suri, son of Amir Polad Suri, he was...
German proverbs collected in Los Angeles. California Folklore Quarterly 4(4). 432-434. Edward Zellem. 2014. Mataluna: 151 Afghan Pashto Proverbs. Tampa...
common in proverbs: The squeaky wheel gets the grease. The early bird catches the worm. Total assonance is found in a number of Pashto proverbs from Afghanistan:...
clichés and proverbs by showing that they are wrong in certain situations, often when taken literally. In this sense, Wellerisms that include proverbs are a...
Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Many cultures have colloquialisms and proverbs that include donkeys or asses. British phrases include "to talk the hind...
Ketuvim. In Masoretic manuscripts (and some printed editions), Psalms, Proverbs and Job are presented in a special two-column form emphasizing the parallel...
even by Apollo. In fact, they are more likely to have simply been popular proverbs. Each maxim has a long history of interpretation, although the third of...
Matlaa'n: 151 Hindko Proverbs. Gandhara Hindko Board. "The Gandhara Hindko Academy Launched an App of the Hindko language proverbs". 2018. Addleton, Jonathan...
so-called Afghan Geniza, an 11th-century collection of manuscript fragments in Hebrew, Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic and Judeo-Persian, was found in Afghanistan, in...
2022-08-25. "Afghan Turbans". Pashto Language Blog | Language and Culture of the Pashto-Speaking World. 2011-09-06. Retrieved 2022-08-20. "Afghan Traditional...
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