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Arabic · Arabic scriptProverb: Verified

«كُتْرِ الْحُزْنْ يِعَلِّمِ الْبُكَا»

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Meaning: Verified
English translation

Grief, when it comes often enough, teaches a person to cry.

Literal wording

Abundance of grief teaches weeping.

Meaning and lesson

Sorrow that comes again and again shapes a person, so that crying stops being a rare event and becomes a familiar, almost practiced reaction. The proverb treats tears as something learned through long acquaintance with pain rather than as a single outburst.

The emphasis can also fall on surroundings: whoever lives amid constant mourning picks up its habits, showing how repeated exposure trains feeling and behavior.

When it is used

Suitable when remarking that someone who has endured repeated sorrow, or who has long been surrounded by mourning, now weeps readily. It can sympathetically explain a tendency to tears, or more generally note that constant exposure to something builds the habit of responding to it.

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