دوا الدهر الصبر عليه

Patience and delayed outcomesReviewed 2026-08-24

Sense: Verified

Functional meaning: Frames patience as a way to endure a condition that cannot be changed immediately.
Usage context: Used as historical counsel for bearing difficult times; the source 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

Arabic Proverbs; or, The Manners and Customs of the Modern EgyptiansJohn Lewis Burckhardt; edited by William Ouseley1830Book
Locator: no. 274, p. 74
Used as historical counsel for bearing difficult times; the source does not establish current usage.
Claim: VerifiedHistorical or primary sourceAI data-completeness reviewer, 2026-08-24
Rights 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.

Arabic Proverbs; or, The Manners and Customs of the Modern EgyptiansJohn Lewis Burckhardt; edited by William Ouseley1830Book
Locator: no. 274, p. 74
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, 2026-08-24
Rights 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.

How this record reached us: AI suggested. This describes provenance and does not raise confidence.

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