1. Translate20 Proverb About ''Heart" from Arabic into English
by
Amal F. Assobei
1. ‫أَحْ سن إلي الناس تستعبد قلوبهم‬
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"27sin ila annas tasta3bid globahom"
Literal meaning: Do good to people and you'll enslave their hearts.
Metaphoric meaning: People sure will love you, If you deal with them as proper.
2. ‫أدنى من حبل الوريد‬
"2dna min 7abl 2lwareed"
Literal meaning: Closer than the carotid artery.
Metaphoric meaning: As close to a person as is humanly possible.
3. ‫إذا فرغ الفؤاد ذهب الرقاد‬
" Itha fra3' 2lfu2ad thahab 2lroogad"
Literal meaning: If heart became empty, sleep gone.
Metaphoric meaning: If the heart is empty, the rest will soon abandon you too.
4. ‫العتاب صابون القلب‬
" 2l3itab sapoon 2lgalb"
Literal meaning: Admonition is the soap of heart.
Metaphoric meaning: Honesty (saying why you are upset with a friend) clears the heart
of hatred and malice.
5. ‫عمى العين وال عمى القلب‬
" 3ama 2l3een wla 3ama 2lgalb"
Literal meaning: Blindness of the eye is better than blindness of the heart.
Metaphoric meaning: being blind is more preferable than being unknowledgeable.
6. ‫ربك رب قلوب‬
" rabak rab glob"
Literal meaning: Your lord is the lord of hearts.

2. Metaphoric meaning: God doesn't know the apparently only, but he knows what the
breasts conceal of intentions.
7. ‫البعيد عن العين بعيد عن القلب‬
" 2lba3eed 3an il3een ba3eed 3an 2lgalb"
The English Proverb : Out of sight , out of mind
Metaphoric meaning: keeping away for too long makes you lose friendships and
relations.
8. ‫قلبي على ابني نار وقلب ابني عليه حجر‬
"gabi 3ala ibni nar wi galb ibni 3alia 7ajar"
Literal meaning: My heart goes out for my son like fire, and my son's heart goes out for
me like stone.
Metaphoric meaning: Describes how deep mothers (parents) feel about their sons, and
how, in return, sons don't show many signs of love. No matter how ungrateful the son is
, the mother would prefer remain cares about him.
9. ‫البشر يعقد القلوب على المحبة‬
" 2lbeshr ya3gid 2lglop 3ala ilma7abah"
Literal meaning: Cheerfulness hold hearts on love.
Metaphoric meaning: A call for smile.
10. ‫الغنى غنى القلب ال غنى المال‬
"2l3'ina 3'na 2lgalb la 3'ina 2lmal"
Literal meaning: Richness is richness of heart not of money.
Metaphoric meaning: The real richness and poverty is the heart's not money. Because
of that if someone heart is poor then he commits bad doings.
11. ‫قلب المؤمن دليله‬
"galb 2lmu2min daliluh"
Literal meaning: Believer's heart is his guide.
Metaphorical meaning: The heart of true believer guides and help him to differentiate
between rights and wrongs.
12.‫القلوب عند بعضها‬
"2lglop 3ind ba3ha"
Literal meaning: Hearts towards each other.
Metaphorical meaning: When there is a consensus between the two met on the same thing.
13. ‫القلب و ما يهوى‬

3. "2lgalb wmaiehua"
Literal meaning: what heart loves.
Metaphoric meaning: when you like things that are meaningless, people use this
proverb to mock you.
14. ‫الشوارب تبوس والقلب فيه السوس‬
"2shawarib tbos wilgalb fih 2ssos"
Literal meaning: Mustaches are kissing, and the licorice is in the heart.
Metaphoric meaning: One may greets you as perfect as he can, be his heart is full of
hatred.
15. ‫ما فيه قلب‬
"mafih galb"
Literal meaning: He doesn’t have as heart.
Metaphoric meaning: It describes the dumb people.
16. ‫ما يشوف إال القلب‬
"ma yshof ila 2lglb"
Literal meaning: Nothing sees excepts heart.
Metaphoric meaning: You notice and see what you care about only.
17. ‫قلبه كبير‬
"galbh kbir"
Literal meaning: His heart is big.
Metaphoric meaning: It describes the generous man.
18. ‫فضة قلبها أبيض‬
"Fidah galbaha 2biad"
Literal meaning: Fidah's heart is white.
Metaphoric meaning: It is used when they describe someone is very kindhearted.
19. ‫المرء بأصغريه‬
"2lmar2 bi 2s3'araih"
Literal meaning: A man is by his two smallest.
Metaphoric meaning: A man's worth depends on his two smallest organs: his heart and
his tongue.
20. ‫قلبه قلب أسد‬
"galbh galb 2sad"
Literal meaning: His heart is a heart of lion
Metaphoric meaning: Describes strong men, who even death is afraid of them.