Farsi is spoken by at least 144 million people in the world. Farsi is also known as Persian of Tajik. It is the official language in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikstan. It gets more confusing for us not too familiar with the language. Farsi is written in Arabic among the Persian, Russian Cyrillic is used by the Tajik whilst the Afghans’s Farsi is written in Dari.
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A good man’s anger lasts an instant,
A meddling man’s for two hours,
A base man’s a day and night,
A great sinner’s until death.
—Persian.
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A drowning man is not troubled by rain.
– Persian proverb
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A feather does not stick without gum.
-Afghanistan
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ALAS, for him who is gone and hath done no good work! The trumpet of march has sounded, and his load was not bound on.
– Persian.
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Be it an onion, let it be given graciously.
– Afghanistan
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Beyond black there is no colour.
– Iran
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Death is a camel that sleeps in everyone’s house.
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Every plate that is made breaks.
– Afghanistan
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Eat little, sleep sound.
~Iranian Proverb
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EVERY moment that a man may be in want of employment, than such I hold him to be far better who is forced to labour for nothing.
– Afghan.
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For every grape there are a hundred wasps.
– Afghan
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Friend is a word of royal tone;
Friend is a poem all alone.
— Persian.
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Harvesting is not the work of a goat.
– Persian
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He who wants a peacock must put up with India.
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He who wears dark glasses, sees the world as dark.
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I used to feel sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who was dead.
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If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth.
– Persian
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If my aunts had a beard, she would have been my uncle.
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It is the same to him who wears a shoe, as if the whole Earth were covered with leather.
– Persian Proverb
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It is a mistake to point out the errors of elders.
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Not everything that is round is a walnut.
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Not everything with a beard is your dad.
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The bird in the air cannot be grilled.
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The wise man sits on the hole in his carpet.
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Two watermelons cannot be carried in one hand.
– Iran
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The way of the wheat is through the mill.
– Afghanistan
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What can the enemy do when the friend is cordial?
– Persian
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