title: Kashmiri proverbs
text: # Kashmiri proverbs
  
  Kashmiri proverbs are proverbs in the Kashmiri language, spoken Kashmir. The best available source for the study of these proverbs is a book by Sh. Omkar N. Koul, A Dictionary of Kashmiri Proverbs. It was first published in 1992, then a second edition was published in 2005, and is now available online.
  
  Kashmiri proverbs come in a variety of grammatical forms, such as:
  
  * simple statements: "An apple gets its colour from another apple."
  * conjoined phrases: "(She) came to visit the shopkeeper but went to visit a baker instead."
  * dialogues: "Mother, no one abuses me." "Son, go and sit on the road."
  * wellerism: "The horse has said, “I will help you to go up the steep, but you lead me down the slope."
  * rhetorical question: "How will a lamp help a blind person in the dark?"
  * sentence fragments: "With short hands and long tongue."
  
  ## Examples
  
  * Naar Veez Krool Khanun : (Too late to do something)
  * Acher Vaalav Seeth Kond Kadun : (Deepest Love)
  * Akh te akh gayi kaah : (Unity is strength)
  * Ach ongji Thukni : (To strike the eyes with fingers. To tease someone.)
  