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Arabic · Arabic scriptProverb: Verified

«شَعْرَهْ مِنْ هِنَا وْشَعْرَهْ مِنْ هِنَا يِعْمِلُوا دَقْنْ»

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Meaning: Verified
English translation

Bit by bit, a hair here and a hair there, you end up with a whole beard.

Literal wording

A hair from here and a hair from there make a beard.

Meaning and lesson

The saying holds that wealth and plenty grow out of tiny pieces brought together. No single hair amounts to anything, yet many joined together form a full beard. Likewise, modest sums and small savings, gathered with care from various places, eventually add up to something substantial.

It recommends thrift and careful management: a person need not wait for a great windfall when small gains can be gathered and saved. The point is the cumulative worth of modest additions, expressed through the playful image of a beard forming one hair at a time.

When it is used

Use it to encourage patient saving or careful household management, as when someone dismisses small coins, leftovers, or modest earnings. It also praises someone who built resources gradually through thrift rather than one windfall. The plain, lightly humorous beard image sounds informal in formal writing.

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