امثال سورية مترجمة على الانكليزي(Syrian Proverbs)

**zen** · 13/06/2005

اذا كان صاحبك عسل لا تلحسو كلو
If your friend is honey, don't lick him all

عرج الجمل من شفته
The camel limped from its split lip

A bad workman blames his tools

الجار قبل الدار
Chose the neighbour before the house

We can live without friends, but not without neighbours

انا واخي على ابن عمي وانا وابن عمي على الغريب

My brother and I against my cousin, My cousin and I against a stranger

Blood is thicker than water

الي فات مات

What is past is dead

Let bygones be bygones

يارايح كتر ملايح

O departing one, leave behind good deeds!

A good deed is never lost

حبل الكذب قصير
The rope of a lie is short

The liar is sooner caught from the cripple

العجلة من الشيطان والتأني من الرحمن
Haste is the devil's work and patience is from God the Merciful

Patience is a virtue

فرخ البط عوام
The son of a duck is a floater

Like father, like son

علمناهم على الشحادة سبقونا على الابواب
We taught them how to beg, they raced us to the gates

to beat someone at his own game

شحاط ومشارط
A beggar and he bargains!

Beggars cannot be choosers

القرد بعين انو غزال
In the eye of his mother, a monkey is a gazelle

All her geese are swans

الديك الفصيح من البيضة بيصيح
The eloquent cock crows from the egg

It early pricks that will be a thorn

الصبر مفتاح الفرج
Patience is the key to relief

ضربني وبكى سبقني واشتكا
He hit me and cried, he raced me to complain!

It's all his fault, yet he pretends to be the victim

على قد لحافك مد رجليك
Stretch your legs according to your quilt

Cut your coat according to your cloth

عصفور باليد احسن من عشرة على الشجرة
A bird in the hand is better than ten on the tree

A bird in the hand is worth ten in the bush

اسأل مجرب ولا تسال حكيم
Ask one who has experience rather than a physician

Experience without learning is better than learning without experience

متل الاطرش بالزفة
He is like a deaf man at a wedding procession

A fish out of water

مو كل مرة بتسلم الجرة
It is not every time that the clay pot survives

You cannot tempt providence and always triumph

الي ايدو بالمي مو متل الايدو بالنار
He who has his hand in the water is not like him who has his hand in the fire

Attitudes are formed by circumstances

خيرها بغيرها
A better one in another one

Better luck next time

كل عقدة والها حلال
Every knot has someone to undo it

Every problem has a solution

ابعد عن الشر وغنيلوا
Keep away from trouble and sing to it

Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you

تيتي تيتي متل مارحتي متل ماجيتي
As you went, so you came back

So what else is new!

اصرف ما في الجيب يأتيك مافي الغيب
Spend what is in your pocket, you will get more from the unknown

Spend and God will send

بطيخ يكسر بعضوا
Let the water melons break each other!

Let them stew in their own juice

يا اخد القرد على مالوا راح المال وضل القرد على حالوا
He married the monkey for its money, the money went and the monkey stayed a monkey

As you make your bed, so you must lie on it

ياداخل بين البصلة وقشرتها ما بينوبك غير ريحتها
Whoever gets between the onion and its skin will get nothing but its stink

Never get between a man and his wife

متل الحية من تحت التبن
Like a snake under the hay

Like a snake in the grass

غابت السباع لعبي ياضباع
When the lions are away, the hyenas play

When the cat is away, the mice will play

طب الشجرة على تما بتطلع البت ل اما
Turn the pot upside down, the girl will still be like her mother

Like mother, like daughter

لك تاجرنا بلاكفان بطلت الناس تموت
When we decided to trade coffins, people decided not to die!

هين فلوسك ولا تهين نفوسك
Let your money be insulted but not yourself

Rather than ask favors, do the thing yourself

يا مأمنة بالرجال متل المي بالغربال
Having faith in men is like having faith that water will remain in a sieve

Don't trust men!

خليها بالقلب تجرح ولا تطلع لبرا وتفضح
Let it wound your heart rather than go out and cause a scandal

Keep it to yourself if you don't want others to know

اذا بدك تحيرو خيرو
If you want to cause him confusion, give him a choice

Make things easier by defining the right way

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