{"id":1733,"date":"2011-05-29T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/?p=1733"},"modified":"2011-05-29T05:54:13","modified_gmt":"2011-05-29T05:54:13","slug":"expressing-similarity-with-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/expressing-similarity-with-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Expressing similarity with animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each language uses elements of nature to express certain ideas, e.g. animals. In English, people say \u2018quiet as a mouse\u2019 and \u2018strong as an ox\u2019. In Arabic, there are many idiomatic expressions like these that are used to express similarity between certain creatures and traits. In this post, I list some of them:<\/p>\n<div>\n<table dir=\"rtl\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"181\" valign=\"top\">\n<p dir=\"rtl\">\u0634\u062c\u0627\u0639 \u0645\u062b\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0633\u062f<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"169\" valign=\"top\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Brave as a lion<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"181\" valign=\"top\">\n<p dir=\"rtl\">\u0633\u0631\u064a\u0639 \u0645\u062b\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u062d\u0635\u0627\u0646<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"169\" valign=\"top\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Fast as a horse<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"181\" valign=\"top\">\n<p dir=\"rtl\">\u0645\u0627\u0643\u0631 \u0645\u062b\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u062b\u0639\u0644\u0628<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"169\" valign=\"top\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Cunning as a fox<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"181\" valign=\"top\">\n<p dir=\"rtl\">\u0648\u062f\u064a\u0639 \u0645\u062b\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u062d\u0645\u0644<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"169\" valign=\"top\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Harmless as a lamb<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"181\" valign=\"top\">\n<p dir=\"rtl\">\u0637\u0648\u064a\u0644 \u0645\u062b\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u0632\u0631\u0627\u0641\u0629<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"169\" valign=\"top\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Tall as giraffe<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"181\" valign=\"top\">\n<p dir=\"rtl\">\u0635\u063a\u064a\u0631 \u0645\u062b\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u0643\u062a\u0643\u0648\u062a<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"169\" valign=\"top\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Small as chick<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"181\" valign=\"top\">\n<p dir=\"rtl\">\u0643\u0628\u064a\u0631 \u0645\u062b\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u0641\u064a\u0644<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"169\" valign=\"top\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Large as an   elephant<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"181\" valign=\"top\">\n<p dir=\"rtl\">\u0631\u0634\u064a\u0642 \u0645\u062b\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u063a\u0632\u0627\u0644<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"169\" valign=\"top\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Thin as a deer<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"181\" valign=\"top\">\n<p dir=\"rtl\">\u063a\u0628\u064a \u0645\u062b\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u062d\u0645\u0627\u0631<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"169\" valign=\"top\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Stupid as a donkey<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"181\" valign=\"top\">\n<p dir=\"rtl\">\u0635\u0628\u0648\u0631 \u0645\u062b\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u062c\u0645\u0644<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"169\" valign=\"top\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Patient as\u00a0 camel<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"181\" valign=\"top\">\n<p dir=\"rtl\">\u0648\u0641\u064a \u0645\u062b\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u0643\u0644\u0628<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"169\" valign=\"top\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Loyal as a dog<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"181\" valign=\"top\">\n<p dir=\"rtl\">\u0628\u0637\u064a\u0621 \u0645\u062b\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0644\u062d\u0641\u0627\u0629<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"169\" valign=\"top\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Slow as a tortoise<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"rtl\">\u0647\u0646\u0627\u0621 \u0631\u0634\u064a\u0642\u0629 \u0645\u062b\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u063a\u0632\u0627\u0644.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"rtl\">\u0623\u0646\u062a \u0635\u0628\u0648\u0631 \u0645\u062b\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u062c\u0645\u0644.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"rtl\">\u0639\u0645\u0631 \u0634\u062c\u0627\u0639 \u0645\u062b\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0633\u062f.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"rtl\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each language uses elements of nature to express certain ideas, e.g. animals. In English, people say \u2018quiet as a mouse\u2019 and \u2018strong as an ox\u2019. In Arabic, there are many idiomatic expressions like these that are used to express similarity between certain creatures and traits. In this post, I list some of them: \u0634\u062c\u0627\u0639 \u0645\u062b\u0644&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/expressing-similarity-with-animals\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[1897,35176,376397],"class_list":["post-1733","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-culture","category-vocabulary","tag-animals","tag-expressing-similarity","tag-vocabulary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1733"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1735,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733\/revisions\/1735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}