दिल्ली अभी दूर है
Hindi edit
Etymology edit
Calque of Classical Persian دهلی هنوز دور است (dihlī hanōz dūr ast). Literally meaning “Delhi is still far away”.
Proverb edit
दिल्ली अभी दूर है • (dillī abhī dūr hai) (Urdu spelling دلی ابھی دور ہے)
- there's many a slip twixt cup and lip; there is still much work to be done
Further reading edit
- McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “दिल्ली”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 497