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Arabic · Arabic scriptProverb: Verified

«إِيدْ عَلَى إِيدْ تِسَاعِدْ»

Meanings

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Meaning: Verified
English translation

Many hands make the work easier.

Literal wording

Hand upon hand helps.

Meaning and lesson

The saying encourages people to cooperate: when each person contributes, a task becomes more manageable and support is shared rather than left to one individual.

It presents joint effort as practically helpful when work, responsibility, or difficulty would burden one person alone. Its image of hands refers to people contributing their effort.

When it is used

Use it to urge collaboration during a shared task or to praise people who have joined in to help. It suits situations where collective participation is expected to lighten the burden.

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