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Arabic · Arabic scriptProverb: Verified

«وِلَادِةْ كُل يُومْ وَلَا سَقْطْ سَنَهْ»

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Meaning: Verified
English translation

Better a birth every day than a year's miscarriage.

Literal wording

A birth every day, and not a miscarriage of a year.

Meaning and lesson

This saying ranks a pregnancy carried to term and delivered normally as easier and safer for a woman than a miscarriage. Setting ordinary births 'every day' beside a single loss makes the comparison stark: the full-term delivery remains the lighter ordeal.

The words about a year allow two readings: a miscarriage whose toll is felt across a whole year, or one simply measured against a year's span. Under either reading, the point holds that a natural birth costs less in strain and danger than losing a pregnancy.

When it is used

Fits a comparison between a normal full-term delivery and the loss of a pregnancy, when the speaker wants to stress that ordinary birth, even repeated daily, is the lighter and safer ordeal.

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