दिल्ली अभी दूर है

दिल्ली अभी दूर है

Hindi

Etymology

Calque of Persian دهلی هنوز دور است‎ (dehli hanuz dur ast). Literally meaning “Delhi is still far away”.

Proverb

दिल्ली अभी दूर है • (dillī abhī dūr hai) (Urdu spelling دلی ابھی دور ہے‎)

1. there's many a slip twixt cup and lip; there is still much work to be done

Further reading

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “दिल्ली”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 497