{"id":41818,"date":"2022-04-07T09:47:33","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T09:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hdsalento.com\/salento-sayings-and-idioms-here-is-a-guide-to-the-funniest-and-most-used-ones\/"},"modified":"2025-02-19T14:29:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T14:29:59","slug":"salento-sayings-and-idioms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hdsalento.com\/en\/salento-sayings-and-idioms\/","title":{"rendered":"Salento Sayings and idioms: Here is a Guide to the Funniest and Most Used ones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What unites us people of <strong>Salento<\/strong> the most is our Dialect. It is easy to find oneself in cities like London and Paris and hear exclamations in <strong>Salento Dialect<\/strong>, realising that we are dealing with one of our fellow citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Our <strong>little guide<\/strong> can help the curious traveller to understand and learn the most commonly used Sayings and Idioms in Salento.<br \/>\nSalento idioms<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>ARTEDICA<\/strong>: it means restlessness, not being able to sit still, it is said especially to children &#8221; TEI L&#8217;ARTEDICA &#8220;.<\/li>\n<li><strong>CAFUDDARE<\/strong>: to fill by force, in the Salento dialect it is used above all when talking about food<\/li>\n<li><strong>CARASSA<\/strong>: is the opening created in the old trunk of an olive tree, sometimes the Salento dialect uses it to indicate a large mouth &#8220;tei la vicca comu na carassa &#8220;.<\/li>\n<li><strong>CORNALA<\/strong>: is the plant of the Carob tree, in Salento it is used to indicate both the tree and the fruit<\/li>\n<li><strong>CULUMMARA<\/strong>: it&#8217;s the &#8220;fiorone&#8221;, the first fruit of the fig, larger in size that ripens in June<\/li>\n<li><strong>DERIMPETTU<\/strong>: in front of<\/li>\n<li><strong>EMME?<\/strong>: it translates as &#8220;so what?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>FANNE CA<\/strong>: we translate it as &#8221; assuming that&#8221;, &#8220;you pretend that&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>FAVUGNU<\/strong>: hot damp sometimes sultry wind from the sirocco, Favonius from the Latin Favonius<\/li>\n<li><strong>FINCA<\/strong>: until &#8216;FINCA QUA SIMU RRIVATI&#8217; (we have arrived until here)<\/li>\n<li><strong>AJATA<\/strong>: means blessed, happy &#8221; AJATA A CI SE LA PIA &#8221; (lucky the one who marries her)<\/li>\n<li><strong>ALLAMMERSA<\/strong>: used to indicate the reverse, the other side<\/li>\n<li><strong>MANISCETE<\/strong>: is used to say hurry up &#8220;MMANISCIETE CA SA FATTU TARDU&#8221; (hurry up, it&#8217;s getting late)<\/li>\n<li><strong>MARENNA<\/strong>: means breakfast, it used to be eaten at the crack of dawn with vegetables and pulses before going to work in the fields<\/li>\n<li><strong>MEU<\/strong>: means mine &#8216;ISTU LOCU E&#8217; MEU&#8217; (this place is mine)<\/li>\n<li><strong>MOI<\/strong>: now, right now<\/li>\n<li><strong>OGNIBANNA<\/strong>: everywhere<\/li>\n<li><strong>OSCI<\/strong>: means today from Latin HODIE<\/li>\n<li><strong>ONZA A ONZA<\/strong>: we translate it as little by little<\/li>\n<li><strong>PEZZA A CULURE<\/strong>: alibi, excuse fit for purpose<\/li>\n<li><strong>PIU PIU<\/strong>: means the slow but steady way of raining<\/li>\n<li><strong>PURU<\/strong>: it means also, even. &#8220;PURU PE OSCI IMU SPICCIATU&#8221; (we&#8217;re done even for today)<\/li>\n<li><strong>SAJETTA<\/strong>: used to say damn<\/li>\n<li><strong>SCIRE<\/strong>: in almost all Salento it means to go &#8216;MENA CA NIMU SCIRE&#8217; (hurry up we have to go)<\/li>\n<li><strong>SIRMA<\/strong>: we translate it with my father<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>https:\/\/www.hdsalento.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/municeddhu-cappello-1132&#215;670-1.jpg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What unites us people of Salento the most is our Dialect. It is easy to find oneself in cities like London and Paris and hear exclamations in Salento Dialect, realising that we are dealing with one of our fellow citizens. Our little guide can help the curious traveller to understand and learn the most commonly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_glsr_average":0,"_glsr_ranking":0,"_glsr_reviews":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history-culture"],"acf":[],"acfml_non_translatable_locations":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdsalento.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdsalento.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdsalento.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdsalento.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdsalento.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdsalento.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdsalento.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdsalento.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdsalento.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdsalento.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}