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"To your wishes" or "health". Old-fashioned: after the second sneeze, "to your loves", and after the third, "may they last forever". More archaically, the translation is "God bless you". Merci or Merci, que les tiennes durent toujours (old-fashioned) after the second sneeze "Thank you" or "Thanks, may yours last forever" after the second sneeze
The name also migrated to Eastern Europe, [9] assumed the form "ažhdaja" and the meaning "dragon", "dragoness" [10] or "water snake" [11] in Balkanic and Slavic languages. [12] Despite the negative aspect of Aži Dahāka in mythology, dragons have been used on some banners of war throughout the history of Iranian peoples.
Sindhi folklore (Sindhi: لوڪ ادب) is composed of folk traditions which have developed in Sindh over many centuries.Sindh thus possesses a wealth of folklore, including such well-known components as the traditional Watayo Faqir tales, the legend of Moriro, the epic tale of Dodo Chanesar and material relating to the hero Marui, imbuing it with its own distinctive local colour or flavour in ...
Like Ahmad-e-Tusi, he also maintains that the dragon was at first a serpent, and it was only after he became more than thirty yards long that it came to be called an azhdaha. He says that after the azhdaha was cast into the sea by God, for terrorizing the people on land, it developed fins and continued to grow in the sea.
A sneeze (also known as sternutation) is a semi-autonomous, convulsive expulsion of air from the lungs through the nose and mouth, usually caused by foreign particles irritating the nasal mucosa. A sneeze expels air forcibly from the mouth and nose in an explosive, spasmodic involuntary action.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 20 November 2024. Legendary large magical creature Not to be confused with Dragon lizard, Komodo dragon, Draconian, Dracones, or Dragoon. This article is about the legendary creature. For other uses, see Dragon (disambiguation). Illustration of a winged, fire-breathing dragon by Friedrich Justin Bertuch ...
When responding to the sneeze of a child, the latter can be expanded to Tsu gezunt, tsum lebn, tsum vaksn, tsum kveln ('Your health, your life, your growth, your joy') and other like expressions. [6] In modern Hebrew , the most commonly-used phrase is livri'ut ( לִבְרִיאוּת , sometimes also לַבְּרִיאוּת , labri'ut , both ...
The Urdu Wikipedia (Urdu: اردو ویکیپیڈیا), started in January 2004, is the Standard Urdu-language edition of Wikipedia, a free, open-content encyclopedia. [1] [2] As of 19 November 2024, it has 214,596 articles, 187,023 registered users and 7,412 files, and it is the 54th largest edition of Wikipedia by article count, and ranks 20th in terms of depth among Wikipedias with over ...