like father, like son
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English [edit]
Proverb [edit]
like father, like son
- A son will have traits similar to his father upon reaching adulthood.
Translations [edit]
a son will have traits similar to his father
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 虎父無犬子 (cmn), 虎父无犬子 (cmn) (hǔfù wú quǎnzǐ) ("Tigers don't have dogs for sons"), 子肖其父 (cmn) (zǐ xiāo qí fù) ("The son is like its father"), 有其父必有其子 (cmn) (yǒu qí fù bì yǒu qí zǐ)
- Dutch: zo vader, zo zoon (nl)
- Esperanto: kia patro, tia filo (eo)
- Estonian: käbi ei kuku kännust kaugele (et)
- Finnish: ei omena puusta kauas putoa (fi), omena ei putoa kauas puusta (fi)
- French: tel père, tel fils (fr)
- German: wie der Vater, so der Sohn (de)
- Hebrew: התפוח לא נפל רחוק מהעץ (he) (ha'tapuach lo nafaal rahok me'ha'etz) pl, כמו האב, ככה הבן (he) ("kmo ha'av, kacha ha'ben") pl
- Hungarian: nem esik messze az alma a fájától (hu)
- Italian: tale padre, tale figlio (it)
- Japanese: 蛙の子は蛙 (ja) (kaeru-no ko-wa kaeru)
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- Malay: bapa borek, anak rintik (ms)
- Maltese: skond il-missier, l-iben (mt)
- Norwegian: som far, så sønn (no)
- Persian: پسر کو ندارد نشان از پدر (fa)
- Polish: jaki ojciec, taki syn (pl), jakie drzewo, taki klin, jaki ojciec, taki syn (pl)
- Portuguese: tal pai, tal filho (pt)
- Russian: яблоко от яблони недалеко падает (ru) (jábloko ot jábloni nedalekó pádajet)
- Scottish Gaelic: bu dual do dh'isean an ròin a dhol chun na mara (gd)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: какав отац, такав син (sh)
- Roman: kakav otac, takav sin (sh)
- Spanish: de tal padre, tal hijo (es), de tal palo, tal astilla (es)
- Swedish: sådan far, sådan son (sv)
- Vietnamese: Cha nào con đó (vi)
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See also [edit]
References [edit]
- Gregory Y. Titelman, Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings, 1996, ISBN 0-679-44554-4, p. 218.
