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Arabic · Arabic scriptProverb: Verified

«اِلْعَدَاوَهْ فِي الْأَهْلْ»

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Meaning: Verified
English translation

Hostility lives among one's own kin.

Literal wording

Enmity is in the family.

Meaning and lesson

The proverb states plainly that enmity is something found inside the family. It places hostility not at a distance but among one's own relatives, the people with whom one is most closely bound.

Used as a remark, it reminds listeners that kinship does not guarantee goodwill. It is a general observation, not a claim that every family is hostile: blood ties can coexist with bitter feeling.

When it is used

Fits a comment on a quarrel, rivalry, or lingering grudge between relatives, offered as a rueful acknowledgment that friction among kin is nothing unusual, without implying that every family is hostile.

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