- Literal translation
Have patience with a loved one rather than lose them.
- Natural translation
Have patience with a loved one rather than lose them.
- Functional meaning
Presents restraint and tolerance as the price of preserving a valued relationship.
- Usage context
Applied to interpersonal restraint; the source records Cairene friendship terminology but does not establish current usage.
- Community
- Cairene Arabic speakers as recorded by Burckhardt
- Region
- Cairo, Egypt
- Historical period
- Recorded as current at Cairo c. 1816–17 and published in 1830; no claim of current 2026 usage.
- Register
- colloquial Egyptian Arabic as historically collected
What supports this meaning
Usage context
- Arabic Proverbs; or, The Manners and Customs of the Modern EgyptiansJohn Lewis Burckhardt; edited by William Ouseley1830Book
Locator: no. 120, p. 32
Applied to interpersonal restraint; the source records Cairene friendship terminology but does not establish current usage.
Claim: VerifiedHistorical or primary sourceAI data-completeness reviewer, 2026-08-24Rights cleared. Only short Arabic proverb strings and factual bibliographic or locator metadata; use original ProverbHub translations and explanations; do not reproduce scan pages or surrounding source commentary.
Period
- Arabic Proverbs; or, The Manners and Customs of the Modern EgyptiansJohn Lewis Burckhardt; edited by William Ouseley1830Book
Locator: no. 120, p. 32
Recorded as current at Cairo c. 1816–17 and published in 1830; no claim of current 2026 usage.
Claim: VerifiedHistorical or primary sourceAI data-completeness reviewer, 2026-08-24Rights cleared. Only short Arabic proverb strings and factual bibliographic or locator metadata; use original ProverbHub translations and explanations; do not reproduce scan pages or surrounding source commentary.
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