Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: gelykenis
- Amharic: gelykenis
- Arabic: gelykenis
- Azerbaijani: məsəl
- Bashkir: сюжеттың
- Belarusian: прытча
- Bulgarian: притча
- Bengali: দৃষ্টান্ত
- Bosnian: parabolu
- Catalan: paràbola
- Cebuano: sambingay
- Czech: podobenství
- Welsh: ddameg
- Danish: lignelsen
- German: Gleichnis
- Greek: παραβολή
- Esperanto: parabolo
- Spanish: parábola
- Estonian: tähendamissõna
- Basque: parabola
- Persian: مثل
- Finnish: vertaus
- French: parabole
- Irish: parabal
- Scottish Gaelic: parable
- Galician: parábola
- Gujarati: કહેવત
- Hebrew: משל
- Hindi: दृष्टान्त
- Croatian: parabola
- Haitian: parabòl
- Hungarian: példázat
- Armenian: առակ
- Indonesian: perumpamaan
- Icelandic: dæmisögu
- Italian: parabola
- Japanese: たとえ話
- Javanese: pasemon
- Georgian: იგავი
- Kazakh: нақылда
- Khmer: ប្រៀបធៀប
- Kannada: ನೀತಿ ಕಥೆ
- Korean: 비유
- Kyrgyz: уламыш
- Latin: parabola
- Luxembourgish: Gleichnis
- Lao: ຄຳອຸປະມາ
- Lithuanian: palyginimas
- Latvian: līdzību
- Malagasy: fanoharana
- Mari: тушташ
- Maori: kupu whakarite
- Macedonian: парабола
- Malayalam: ഉപമ
- Mongolian: сургаалт зүйрлэл
- Marathi: बोधकथा
- Hill Mari: притчывлӓ
- Malay: perumpamaan
- Maltese: paragunabbli mas
- Burmese: ကြ
- Nepali: कथामा
- Dutch: gelijkenis
- Norwegian: lignelsen
- Punjabi: ਮਿਸਾਲ
- Papiamento: parábola
- Polish: przypowieść
- Portuguese: parábola
- Romanian: pilda
- Russian: притча
- Sinhalese: උපමාව
- Slovak: podobenstvo
- Slovenian: prilika
- Albanian: shembulli
- Serbian: парабола
- Sundanese: pasemon
- Swedish: liknelse
- Swahili: mfano
- Tamil: உவமை
- Telugu: ఉపమానం
- Tajik: зарбулмасал
- Thai: parable
- Tagalog: parabula
- Turkish: mesel
- Tatar: притча
- Udmurt: мадёнэз
- Ukrainian: притча
- Urdu: تمثیل
- Uzbek: masal
- Vietnamese: ẩn dụ
- Xhosa: umzekeliso
- Yiddish: משל
- Chinese: 比喻
Synonyms, close and similar words for parable
- proverb
- apologue
- allegory
- fable