Proverbs

See also proverbs

English

Proverbs on Wikipedia.Wikipedia “Proverbs” on Wikisource. Wikisource Wiktionary has an Appendix listing books of the Bible

Proper noun

Proverbs

1. A book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh, being a collection or moral maxims.

Related terms

• Prov.

Translations

book of the Bible

• Afrikaans: Spreuke (af)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 箴言 (cmn) (zhēnyán)

• Dutch: Spreuken
• Estonian: Õpetussõnad (et) pl
• Finnish: Sananlaskut (fi)
• French: Proverbes (fr)
• Greek: Παροιμίες (el) (Paroimíes)

• Icelandic: Orðskviðirnir (is)
• Japanese: 箴言 (shingen)
• Luxembourgish: Sprachwierder (lb)
• Maltese: Ktieb il-Qwiel
• Norwegian: Salomos Ordtøke (no) n pl
• Polish: Księga Przysłów (pl) f
• Russian: Книга Притчей Соломоновых (ru) (Kníga Prítčej Solomónovyx) f, Притчи (ru) (Prítči) f pl
• Slovene: Pregovori