Proverb from Afghanistan

Pashto

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Meaning

People travel tirelessly, like birds, and there is no limit to their journeys. The book: “Man is a prodigious traveller like the birds.” It is said of someone who travels far, from city to city or country to country.

Source

Pashtu Proverbs, selected and translated into Dari by A. R. Benawa, English by A. M. Shinwari (Kabul: Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan, International Centre for Pashto Studies, 1979), no. 21, p. 24, on archive.org (ACKU collection)

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