proverb

See also Proverbs

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Latin proverbium.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈprɒvɜːb/
• (US) IPA: /ˈprɑːvɝːb/

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Noun

proverb (plural proverbs)

1. A phrase expressing a basic truth which may be applied to common situations.

Synonyms

• (phrase expressing a basic truth): adage, apothegm, byword, maxim, paroemia, saw, byspel, saying, sententia
• See also Wikisaurus:saying

Derived terms

Terms derived from "proverb"

proverbial

proverbiology

proverbs hunt in pairs

Translations

phrase expressing a basic truth

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: مَثَلٌ (ar) (máθal) m, حكمة (ar) (ħíkma) f
• Armenian: առած (hy) (aṙaç), ասացվածք (hy) (asac'vaçk)
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: proverbi (ca) m, dita (ca) f, refrany (ca) m, parèmia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 箴言 (cmn) (zhēnyán), 諺語 (cmn), 谚语 (cmn) (yànyǔ)

• Czech: přísloví (cs) n
• Danish: ordsprog (da) n
• Dutch: spreekwoord (nl) n, gezegde (nl) n
• Esperanto: proverbo (eo), sentenco (eo)
• Estonian: vanasõna (et)
• Finnish: sananlasku (fi), sanonta (fi)
• French: proverbe (fr) m
• Georgian: ანდაზა (ka) (andaza)
• German: Sprichwort (de) n, Denkspruch (de) m
• Greek: παροιμία (el) (paroimía) f
• Gujarati: કહેવત (gu) (kahevat) f
• Hebrew: פתגם (he) m
• Hindi: कहावत (hi) (kahāvat)
• Hungarian: közmondás (hu)
• Ido: proverbo (io)
• Indonesian: pribahasa (id)
• Italian: proverbio (it) m
• Japanese: 諺 (ja) (ことわざ kotowaza), 格言 (ja) (かくげん kakugen)
• Khmer: សុភាសិត (km) (so’pʰiesət)
• Korean: 속담 (ko) (sokdam)
• Latin: sententia (la) f, proverbium (la) n
• Latvian: sakãmvards (lv), sakāmvārds (lv) m
• Lithuanian: patarlė (lt) f
• Low German: Snacks (nds)

• Luxembourgish: Sprachwuert (lb)
• Macedonian: поговорка (mk) (pogóvorka) f, изрека (mk) (ízreka) f, пословица (mk) (poslóvica) f
• Malay: peribahasa (ms)
• Maori: rārangi whakataukī (mi)
• Mongolian: зүйр цэцэн үг (mn) (züyr cecen üg)
• Norwegian: ordtak (no)
• Old English: please add this translation if you can
• Ossetian: æмбисонд
• Persian: ضربالمثل (fa)
• Polish: przysłowie (pl) n
• Portuguese: provérbio (pt) m
• Rajasthani: कैवत (kaivat)
• Romanian: proverb (ro) n, proverbe (ro) n pl
• Russian: пословица (ru) (poslóvitsa) f, поговорка (ru) (pogovórka) f
• Scottish Gaelic: seanfhacal (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пословица (sh) f

  Roman: poslovica (sh) f

• Slovak: príslovie (sk) n
• Spanish: proverbio (es) m
• Swahili: methali (sw)
• Swedish: ordspråk (sv) n
• Tamil: பழமொழி (ta) (paḻamoḻi)
• Telugu: నానుడి (te) (nānuḍi)
• Thai: ภาษิต (th) (paasìt)
• Turkish: atasözü (tr)
• Urdu: کہاوت (ur) (kahāvat)
• Volapük: spiket (vo), (older term) pükedavöd (vo)
• Welsh: dihareb (cy) f
• Yiddish: שפּריכוואָרט (yi) (shprikhvort) n, וועלצווערטל (yi) (veltsvertl) n

Verb

proverb (third-person singular simple present proverbs, present participle proverbing, simple past and past participle proverbed)

1. To write or utter proverbs.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

See also

• Category:English proverbs

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Romanian

Noun

proverb

1. saying (proverb or maxim)

This Romanian entry was created from the translations listed at saying. It may be less reliable than other entries, and may be missing parts of speech or additional senses. Please also see proverb in the Romanian Wiktionary. This notice will be removed when the entry is checked. (more information) July 2010