«زَيِّ الْبَدَوِي مَا يْفُوتْشْ تَارُهْ»

The saying describes a person who holds on to every grievance until it is answered. Such a person will not let an insult or injury pass without retaliating, however much time goes by. The point is a settled habit of getting even, not a single act of revenge.

The image rests on a traditional stereotype, not a fact, of Bedouins as relentless in blood feuds; تار here is the colloquial form of ثأر, vengeance, not a string or drum. The proverb borrows that reputation to characterize anyone whose nature is to remember wrongs and repay them. It can warn others or remark on their stubbornness.

Use it critically for someone who nurses a grievance and seeks retaliation even after much time has passed. The reference to Bedouins invokes a traditional ethnic stereotype; quoting it about an individual can turn an observation about revenge into an insult.