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أمثال لبنانية طريفة
صفحة الامثال اللبنانية الطريفة (مع شروح لها) منقول
Humorous Lebanese Proverbs (with linked explanatory notes)

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انقر على الدوائر للحصول على الاجوبة في صفحة جديدة

= The old customer (the wretch) is back!

= إجا زبون العوافي
= When they came to shoe the Sultans horses, the beetle came along and stuck out its foot

= إجوا يبيطروا خيل السلطان، مدّت الخنفسة إجرها

= A thousand ladders would not reach up to his head

= ألف سلّم ما بيطالوا راسو

= When it thunders farts, it will rain excrement

= إن أرعدت فصوص أمطرت خرا

= My sister lives in Tiberias, but her smell reaches me

= اختي بطبريّة وضراطها واصل ليَّ

= Life is like donkeys rubbing against each other

= الدنيا حكاك حَمير

= A husband is not a flower with which to decorate your head

= الرجّال مش شكلة تَ تحطّيه ع راسِك

= Cooking and trade require a broken leg

= الطبخة والمهنة بدها إجر مكسورة

= The ape in its mothers eyes is a gazelle

= القرد بعين إمّو غزال

= God is not pasturing a drove of cows

= الله ما عم يرعى بقر!

= He who has money can eat baqsama in hell

= اللي معو فلوس بياكل بجهنم بقسما

= I hope you’re not eating milky rice

= ان شاء الله ما عم تاكلوا رز بحليب

= I love you as much as a stomachache

= بحبّك قد وجع البطن

= Spit that pebble out, Antoun!

= بق البحصة يا أنطون!

= He would not piss on a wounded finger

= ما بيشخ ع اصبع مجروح

= His father is onion and his mother is garlic, so where would the good smell come?

= بيّو بصل وأمّو توم، ومن وين بدها تجي الريحة الطيبة؟

= The fox will never eat chicken!

= تاب ابو زهرة عن اكل الدجاج

= Now that I have had supper, and the donkey has had his, (I don’t care a bit) whether she delivers at night or during the day

= تعشَّينا وعشَّينا الحمار، بيسوى تخلِّف بالليل بيسوى تخلِّف بالنهار

= A borrowed garment warms not, and should it warm it lasts not

= توب العياري ما بيدفّي وإن دفّى ما بيدوم

= Is Jiha older, or his father is?

= جحا اكبر ولاّ ابوه؟

= Marry an old man who can provide you with luxury rather than a young man who provides you with a wretched living

= خِدي ختيار يدلِّلك ولا شاب يبهدِلِك

= A dogs excrement which is divided in two

= خرية كلب وانقسمت

= Your ear is not located far from you mouth

= دَينتَك مش بعيدة عن تِمَّك

= Your glory has gone after your replacement came

= راح جلالك لمّا إجا بدالك

= He left riding on a horse, he came back riding a mule

= راح ع حصان، رجع ع بغل

= Musk has no place in the onion market

= ضاع المسك بسوق البصل

= As a jar standing on its mouth, a girl grows up to be like her mother

= طِب الجرة ع تمها بتطلع البنت لأمها

= [[Its impossible to translate this one literally]]

= طِبْني طَبْتَك العافية

= After divorcing her, he started staring at her legs once again

= طلَّقها ورجع يتطلَّع بسيقانها

= Oh, you raisin, this stem is always stuck to your behind

= طول عمرِك يا زبيبة بطيزك هالعُودة

= The angel of death chewed him repeatedly, then spit him

= علَكو علَكو عزرايل وبزقو

= He asked, “Who taught you good manners?” The other said, “That one hanging up there”

= قال له مين معلّمك الذوق؟ قال له المعلَّق فوق

= Don’t wash yourselves with your tongues like cows do

= لا تغسلوا حالكم بلساناتكم متل البقر

= Had my grandmother had that thing, I would have called her Grandfather!

= لو كان لستي هونيك شي، كنت بقول لها يا جدي