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- 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." (en)
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- 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: (en)
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