Languagle #54: Urdu
آم کے آم، گٹھلیوں کے دام
Aam ke aam, guthliyon ke daam
"The mangoes for eating, and money for the stones as well."
What it means
Getting double value from one thing: you eat the mangoes, then sell the stones as well. Used when something pays off twice. It is also common in Hindi.
What kind of saying it is
Oral tradition. In Urdu, a ضرب المثل. Passed down by word of mouth. Sayings like this have no single author.
About the Urdu language
Urdu is an Indo-Aryan language and the national language of Pakistan, also widely spoken in India. In everyday speech it is largely mutually intelligible with Hindi; the two differ mainly in script and in their higher vocabulary, with Urdu drawing more on Persian and Arabic. Urdu is written right to left in the Nastaliq style of the Perso-Arabic script, a flowing hand in which each word slopes down towards the line.