{"id":10703,"date":"2024-01-09T11:52:21","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T11:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=10703"},"modified":"2024-01-09T11:52:21","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T11:52:21","slug":"sudanese-proverbs-translated-transliterated-and-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/09\/sudanese-proverbs-translated-transliterated-and-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudanese Proverbs- Translated, Transliterated and Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Khartoum &#8211; Sudan Events<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Muna Zaki has been fascinated by Sudanese proverbs all her life. As an undergraduate, \u00a0she carried around a notebook in her pocket so she could jot down any proverbs and sayings she heard.<br \/>\nThis collection of proverbs provides a fascinating insight into the culture, social morals, historical traditions and humour of the Sudanese. Learning some of these proverbs can be a great way of sharing your sense of humour or expressing an opinion without having to stumble on words that might be misunderstood.<br \/>\nFor the most part, these succinct sayings call for virtues that encourage solidarity, peace and coherence within society.<br \/>\nContains over 560 Sudanese Arabic proverbs that are commonly used in the Sudan. Each proverb has an English translation.<br \/>\nThe transliterated script guides pronunciation and assists beginners in learning the Arabic language. Concise notes explain the meaning and cultural background of each proverb. Includes a dozen folk-tales linked to individual proverbs.<br \/>\nAn alphabetical index is supplied for easy reference. &#8220;Muna Zaki and Edmund Wyatt have compiled a useful collection of Sudanese sayings and proverbs, which provide a source of learning and a reference point for those who are interested in Sudanese culture and folklore.&#8221; Rashid Sid Ahmed Elsheikh, Sudan Studies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khartoum &#8211; Sudan Events Muna Zaki has been fascinated by Sudanese proverbs all her life. As an undergraduate, \u00a0she carried around a notebook in her pocket so she could jot down any proverbs and sayings she heard. This collection of proverbs provides a fascinating insight into the culture, social morals, historical traditions and humour of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10705,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10703\/revisions\/10705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}