Dr. Shams Ul Hussain & Dr. Ahmad Hassan
Women University, Pakistan
Proverbs in every language is to be counted as a summary of up and downs of the intellectuals’ lives. Whenever, there happens an event, an intellectual personality quotes a sentence in this regard which is repeated in another event similar to it and so, it shapes a proverb. Then, in light of these quotations other people make their lives sprinkling light to avoid them from setbacks. The proverbs are always quoted with exact words, retaining the essence, even it clashes with the burning event syntactically or grammatically. As literature is the echo of life, therefore, proverbs of every language is probably similar to other languages even in words, style, events and structure. Similarly, similarities in Pashto and Arabic phrases are common, which need comparative analysis to bring speakers of both the languages closer to each other and make them know the standards of each other’s intellectuals. As Arabs and Pashtuns have close civilizational, cultural and moral similarities which reflect in their conversations and in the proverbs in particular. This article comparatively analyzes selected proverbs from both the languages, by pointing out its usage and some other equivalent proverbs. In conclusion, raising more options for further research have been mentioned.
The above abstract is a part of the article which was accepted at The Third International Conference on Current Issues of Languages, Dialects and Linguistics (WWW.TLLL.IR), 31 January-1February 2019 , Ahwaz.
