saying
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English [edit]
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Etymology [edit]
say + -ing
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /ˈseɪɪŋ/
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- Rhymes: -eɪɪŋ
- Hyphenation: say‧ing
saying
- Present participle of say.
saying (plural sayings)
- A proverb or maxim; something often said.
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Translations [edit]
proverb or maxim
- Armenian: առած (hy) (aṙaç)
- Catalan: dita f, proverbi m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 說法 (cmn), 说法 (cmn) (shuōfǎ), 諺語 (cmn), 谚语 (cmn) (yànyǔ)
- Czech: rčení n, přísloví n
- Dutch: gezegde (nl) n, spreekwoord (nl) n
- Finnish: sanonta (fi)
- French: dicton (fr) m
- German: Sprichwort (de) n, Ausspruch (de) m
- Greek: απόφθεγμα (el) (apóftheɣma) n, παροιμία (el) (parimía) f
- Hungarian: mondás (hu), közmondás (hu), szólásmondás (hu)
- Indonesian: pepatah (id)
- Interlingua: dicto, proverbio
- Italian: proverbio (it) m
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- Japanese: 格言 (ja) (かくげん, kakugen)
- Latin: dictio (la)
- Macedonian: поговорка (mk) (pogóvorka) f, изрека (mk) (ízreka) f, пословица (mk) (poslóvica) f
- Polish: powiedzenie
- Portuguese: ditado (pt) m, provérbio (pt) m
- Romanian: zicală f, proverb
- Russian: пoслoвицa (ru) (poslovica) (poslóvica) f, пoгoвoркa (ru) (pogovorka) (pogovórka) f
- Serbian: poslovica, izreka f
- Slovak: rčenie (sk) pl, príslovie (sk) n
- Spanish: dicho (es) m, proverbio (es) m, refrán (es) m
- Swahili: misemo (sw), msemo (sw)
- Swedish: ordspråk (sv) n, ordstäv (sv) n (dated)
- Tagalog: kasabihan (tl)
- Welsh: dywediad (cy) m
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