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Uzbek proverbs about guests and hospitality
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First food, then words/First food, then words — Snachala eda (ugoshchenie), a potom beseda
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Don't stay where you said, don't go where you didn't say
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A miser avoids a gift, a miser avoids a guest/A miser avoids a gift, a miser avoids a guest — Skupoy ot dobrogo dela bejit, skryaga ot gostey bejit (izbegaet gostey)
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Say hello to the place where you drank salt for forty days
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There will be rice soup, the guest will be happy/There will be rice soup, the guest will be happy — Gorstka risa stanet plovom, serdtse gostya raduy slovom
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The guest comes through the door, the food comes through the hole
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Put the baby down when the guest comes/Put the baby down when the guest comes — Kogda u tebya gost, ne rugay svoego rebenka (Gost mojet prinyat na svoy schet)
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Put soup in front of the guest, keep both hands free
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The guest who came by himself is a special god, the guest who told him is a disaster/The guest who came by himself is a special god, the guest who told him is a disaster - Nezvanyy gost - podarok, zvanyy gost - napast. (cogda preduprejdayut — necessarily gototitsya, pokupat produkti i dr raskhody)