- English translation
Somewhere up in the sky lives a bird called Ghadanfar, and its job is matching each sort with its own.
- Literal wording
A bird in the sky named Ghadanfar gathers like kinds together with one another.
- Meaning and lesson
The saying credits an imaginary bird, Ghadanfar, an invented name rather than a real species, with the work of uniting beings of the same nature. It offers a light, fanciful explanation for why people who share a temperament manage to meet and stay together, as though some unseen hand had sorted them.
It is applied to people whose characters already agree and who then find themselves joined, as companions or partners. The point is that their coming together is natural, since alike temperaments seem drawn to each other; the saying makes no literal claim about birds or about fate.
- When it is used
Use it when two or more people with matching dispositions or habits have come together, remarking playfully that their union seems fitting, almost as if arranged by a matchmaker in the sky.
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