Dec 3, 2015 06:48
8 yrs ago
Arabic term
كن للود حافظا وان لم تجد محافظا
Arabic to English
Art/Literary
Idioms / Maxims / Sayings
one of the sayings of ali, and in another version it goes like this:
كن للود للجود حافظا وان لم تجد محافظا
كن للود للجود حافظا وان لم تجد محافظا
Proposed translations
53 mins
Ahmed Sayed Farghly
Egypt
Egypt
Native in Arabic
&
English
Egypt
Arabic Translation at its best!
Native in: Arabic 
, English
Works in: English to Arabic
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be for intimacy a maintainer even if you didn't find a maintainer
be for intimacy a maintainer even if you didn't find a maintainer
be for intimacy a maintainer even if you didn't find one
be for intimacy a maintainer even if you didn't find one
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Lotfi Abdolhaleem
Egypt
Egypt
Native in Arabic
Egypt
Perfection? An inherent nature of mine!
Native in: Arabic (Variant: Standard-Arabian (MSA)) 
Works in: Arabic, English to Arabic, Arabic to English
maintain amicability even if no loving one
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Note added at 27 mins (2015-12-03 07:16:13 GMT)
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or: .. no one loving
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Note added at 27 mins (2015-12-03 07:16:13 GMT)
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or: .. no one loving
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4 hrs
uphold friendship/don't give up on friendship, even if you are the only one doing so
See the explanations for the lexeme محافظة:
التمسّك بالودّ
or:
المواظبة على الأمر
=> as has been suggested by the colleagues, it's about continuing to do something; about clinging to friendship, even if no-one else does.
Hold friendship in high regard, even if you are the only one doing so.
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