The most important popular proverbs in the month of October `October` .. and its most prominent features

Written By رنا السيلاوي on 2022/09/30

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.

Arab weather - October is the tenth month in the Gregorian calendar. It has 31 days and falls within the autumn months in the northern hemisphere, and within the spring months in the southern hemisphere.

Among the famous proverbs circulating in the Arab Mashreq about October:

"Shtwa Al-Masta"

Tishreen may witness the “Al-Mas’a Winter” i.e. rain falling “splitting” and “flattening” the fruits of the pomegranate tree.​

"The year of starlings I plow in the fallow"

The migration of birds in Tishreen was linked to his expectations of the next season’s fertility or fecundity. Many popular examples are cited in this regard: “The year of starlings I plow in the fallow.” The starling is a small, inhabited bird that migrates to the Levant after olive picking (in Charin) and its good fortune is with farmers. The proverb means when the starlings come to plow all your land and sow it, even rocky and uncultivated ones, i.e. (fallen).

"Year of the cat sell cover"

And the cat is a kind of wild pigeon that comes to the Levant in Charin”, that is, at the time of sowing, so it eats a lot of sown love, and its arrival is a bad omen, and the proverb “The year of the pigeon brushes and sleeps” meaning the previous proverb.

olive picking season

In October, when many fruits fall, the summer fruit season ends, citrus fruits and some winter fruits begin to appear, and it is the beginning of the season of picking the fruits of the olive tree, and the leaves fall from the trees that are not evergreen.

Tag season starts in october

In the month of October, the marking “the rainy season” begins, and it is called by this name because it marks the land with greenery and plants.

If "Al-Wasm" occurs early during October, it is called "Al-Wasm Al-Badri"; That is, it started early in the rainy season, which is an indication of a abundant rainy season, as the east winds, which are called by the common people “Al-Sharqi” because they come from the geographical east, are hot and dry winds that bring with them a lot of “Bahish” which are crawling insects and scorpions.

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This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.


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