Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: spreekwoord
- Amharic: የሚሰጡዋቸውን
- Arabic: المثل
- Azerbaijani: atalar sözü
- Bashkir: мәҡәлдәр
- Belarusian: прыказка
- Bulgarian: поговорка
- Bengali: প্রবাদ
- Bosnian: poslovica
- Catalan: proverbi
- Cebuano: panultihon
- Czech: přísloví
- Welsh: dihareb
- Danish: ordsprog
- German: Sprichwort
- Greek: παροιμία
- Esperanto: proverbo
- Spanish: proverbio
- Estonian: vanasõna
- Basque: esaera
- Persian: ضرب المثل
- Finnish: sananlasku
- French: proverbe
- Irish: seanfhocal
- Scottish Gaelic: sean-fhacal
- Galician: proverbio
- Gujarati: કહેવત
- Hebrew: פתגם
- Hindi: कहावत
- Croatian: poslovica
- Haitian: pwovèb
- Hungarian: közmondás
- Armenian: ասացվածք
- Indonesian: pepatah
- Icelandic: orðtak
- Italian: proverbio
- Japanese: ことわざ
- Javanese: wulang bebasan
- Georgian: ანდაზა
- Kazakh: мақал
- Khmer: សុភាសិត
- Kannada: ಗಾದೆ
- Korean: 속담
- Kyrgyz: макал бар
- Latin: proverbium
- Luxembourgish: Sprëchwuert
- Lao: ສິດ
- Lithuanian: patarlė
- Latvian: sakāmvārds
- Malagasy: ohabolana
- Mari: калыкмут
- Maori: whakatauki
- Macedonian: поговорка
- Malayalam: proverb
- Mongolian: зүйр
- Marathi: म्हण
- Hill Mari: халык шая
- Malay: peribahasa
- Maltese: qawl
- Burmese: စကား
- Nepali: उखान
- Dutch: spreekwoord
- Norwegian: ordtak
- Punjabi: ਕਹਾਵਤ
- Papiamento: proverbio
- Polish: przysłowie
- Portuguese: provérbio
- Romanian: proverb
- Russian: пословица
- Sinhalese: හිතෝපදේශය
- Slovak: príslovie
- Slovenian: pregovor
- Albanian: fjalë e urtë
- Serbian: пословица
- Sundanese: paribasa
- Swedish: ordspråk
- Swahili: methali
- Tamil: பழமொழி
- Telugu: సామెతలు
- Tajik: зарбулмасал
- Thai: สุภาษิต
- Tagalog: kasabihan
- Turkish: atasözü
- Tatar: халкыбызның
- Udmurt: пословицая
- Ukrainian: прислів'я
- Urdu: کہاوت
- Uzbek: masaldagi
- Vietnamese: câu tục ngữ,
- Xhosa: proverb
- Yiddish: שפּריכוואָרט
- Chinese: 有句谚语
Synonyms, close and similar words for proverb
- parable
- apologue
- fable
- saying
- saw
- byword
- apothegm
- adage
- maxim
- aphorism