I have come across a collection of Urdu proverbs. Muhammad Zaman Khan, a lawyer by profession, has compiled it – a labour of love. He has also published it on his own. In the first of two ...

Born of words of the wise, a proverb not only proffers advice based on experience but it also reflects the linguistic, cultural and social milieu in which it is born. Urdu has a very rich and ...

It means, aside from literal meaning (to distribute sweetmeat ... In addition to idioms, Urdu dictionaries enlist proverbs too, as both idioms and proverbs are extant in Urdu in large number ...