proverb

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) A commonly used sentence expressing popular wisdom.
 * 2)  A striking or paradoxical assertion; an obscure saying; an enigma; a parable.
 * 3)  A familiar illustration; a subject of contemptuous reference.
 * 4)  A drama exemplifying a proverb.
 * 1)  A familiar illustration; a subject of contemptuous reference.
 * 2)  A drama exemplifying a proverb.
 * 1)  A drama exemplifying a proverb.
 * 1)  A drama exemplifying a proverb.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:saying
 * See also Thesaurus:saying

Translations

 * Albanian: ,
 * Arabic:, حِكْمَة, مَقَال
 * Armenian: ,
 * Asturian: proverbiu
 * Azerbaijani: məsəl, atasözü, atalar sözü
 * Bashkir: мәҡәл, әйтем
 * Basque: atsotitz
 * Belarusian: пры́казка, прысло́ўе
 * Bengali:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese: ,
 * Catalan:, , ,
 * Chakma: 𑄓𑄊𑄧𑄇𑄧𑄙
 * Chichewa: mwambi
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 箴言, 諺語
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ordsprog
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:, sentenco
 * Estonian: vanasõna
 * Faroese: orðtak, orðatak
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: proverbio, ,
 * Georgian: ანდაზა
 * German:, Denkspruch, ; Proverb
 * Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌾𐌿𐌺𐍉
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: παροιμία
 * Greenlandic: ussat
 * Gujarati: કહેવત
 * Haitian Creole: provèb
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:, orðskviður
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: sananverto
 * Irish: seanfhocal
 * Italian:
 * Ivatan: pananahan
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: мақал
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: макал
 * Lao: ພາສິດ, ສຸພາສິດ
 * Latin: adagiō, adagium, paroemia, proverbium, sententia
 * Latvian: ,
 * Lithuanian: patarlė
 * Low German: Snacks
 * German Low German:
 * Luxembourgish: Sprachwuert
 * Macedonian: поговорка, изрека, пословица
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: ,
 * Maltese: qawl
 * Maori: rārangi whakataukī
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: зүйр цэцэн үг, зүйр үг
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: ordtak
 * Old English: biword
 * Oromo: mammaaksa
 * Ossetian: ӕмбисонд
 * Pashto: متل, مثل
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Rajasthani: कैवत
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: seanfhacal, gnàth-fhacal
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: по̀словица
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: príslovie
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: salawikain
 * Tajik: масал, мақол
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu:, ,
 * Thai: ,
 * Tibetan: གཏམ་དཔེ།
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: atalar sözi, nakyl
 * Ukrainian:, при́казка
 * Urdu: کہاوت, ضرب المثل
 * Uyghur: ھېكمەت, ماقال
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:, pükedavöd
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish:, וועלטסווערטל, פֿאָלקסווערטל

Verb

 * 1) To write or utter proverbs.
 * 2) To name in, or as, a proverb.
 * 3) To provide with a proverb.
 * 1) To provide with a proverb.

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) saying,, maxim
 * 2)   drama exemplifying a proverb
 * 1)   drama exemplifying a proverb