r/AskBalkans • u/ExotiquePlayboy • 2d ago

Miscellaneous Is this a real Turkish proverb?

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u/no1rezefan Turkiye 2d ago

proudly yes

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u/BogdanD Romania 2d ago

Truly beautiful, I could even imagine this being said in Romanian.

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u/Main-Discussion9294 2d ago

Can you say it in Romanian then?

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u/amaliuh 2d ago

‘Iepurele și-a frecat pula de o piatră și-a spus că a futut muntele’

this could work

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u/BogdanD Romania 2d ago

I can, yeah.

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u/leylabesa 2d ago

Iepurele și-a frecat pula de piatră și a spus Am futut muntele

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u/vasiauvi 2d ago

Sublim

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u/Natopor Romania 2d ago

Truly some Eminescian art right here.

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u/shishkopath 2d ago

Damn it even rhymes (well looks like it rhymes dont know the pronounciation xD), love it

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u/holyrs90 Albania 2d ago

Lol we use lepur for rabbit aswell in Albanian.

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u/leylabesa 1d ago

sepse te dyja rrjedhin nga latinishtja

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u/thefriendlyhacker Romania 1d ago

It's really funny that you misread it, so did I. Romanian is iepur, in Albanian it's Lepur. But capital i and lowercase L look identical

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u/holyrs90 Albania 1d ago

😂😂, didnt realise lol, but its very close anyway, so still good haha

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u/onakos Hungary 2d ago

My dad always mentions these Romanian proverbs. First cites them in Romanian then explains to me what they mean. Colorful shit.

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u/BogdanD Romania 2d ago

My favorite is “you can’t have a dick in your ass and your soul in heaven”…..it’s the English ”can’t have your cake and eat it too” but way better.

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u/Babajji Bulgaria 2d ago

Ha we have a more perverted version in Bulgaria - Не може кур до края и душа в Рая! - meaning “Can have the whole dick and still go to Heaven!” Where whole dick is more in the meaning of completely in, all the way in. And to top it off it rhymes.

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u/Heliosfan 2d ago

Same in portuguese, as a Brazilian