- Albanian:thënie (sq) f,proverb (sq) m
- Arabic:مَثَل (ar) m(maṯal),حِكْمَة f(ḥikma),مَقَال m(maqāl),ضَرْب مَثَل m(ḍarb maṯal),ضَرْبُ الْمَثَل m(ḍarbu l-maṯal)(definite)
- Armenian:առած (hy)(aṙac),ասացվածք (hy)(asacʻvackʻ)
- Asturian:proverbiu m
- Azerbaijani:məsəl,atasözü,atalar sözü
- Bashkir:мәҡәл(məqəl),әйтем(əytem)
- Basque:atsotitz
- Belarusian:пры́казка f(prýkazka),прысло́ўе n(pryslóŭje)
- Bengali:প্রবাদ (bn)(probad)
- Breton:krennlavar (br) m
- Bulgarian:посло́вица (bg) f(poslóvica),погово́рка (bg) f(pogovórka)
- Burmese:စကားပုံ (my)(ca.ka:pum),ဆိုထုံး (my)(hcuihtum:)
- Catalan:proverbi (ca) m,dita (ca) f,refrany (ca) m,parèmia (ca) f
- Chakma:𑄓𑄊𑄧𑄇𑄧𑄙(ḍāghakadhā)
- Chechen:кица(kica)
- Chichewa:mwambi
- Chinese:
- Cantonese:箴言(zam1 jin4),諺語 /谚语(jin6 jyu5)
- Mandarin:箴言 (zh)(zhēnyán),諺語 /谚语 (zh)(yànyǔ)
- Czech:přísloví (cs) n
- Danish:ordsprog n
- Dutch:spreekwoord (nl) n,gezegde (nl) n
- Esperanto:proverbo (eo),sentenco
- Estonian:vanasõna
- Faroese:orðtak n,orðatak n
- Finnish:sananlasku (fi),sanonta (fi)
- French:proverbe (fr) m
- Galician:proverbio m,refrán (gl) m,verbo (gl) m
- Georgian:ანდაზა(andaza)
- German:Sprichwort (de) n,Denkspruch m,Redensart (de) f;Proverb n(obsolete)
- Gothic:𐌲𐌰𐌾𐌿𐌺𐍉 f(gajukō)
- Greek:παροιμία (el) f(paroimía)
- Ancient:παροιμία f(paroimía)
- Greenlandic:ussat
- Gujarati:કહેવત f(kahevat)
- Haitian Creole:provèb
- Hebrew:פִּתְגָּם (he) m(pitgám)
- Hindi:कहावत (hi) f(kahāvat),मसल (hi) f(masal),लोकोक्ति (hi) f(lokokti),ज़र्ब-उल-मसल f(zarb-ul-masal)
- Hungarian:közmondás (hu)
- Icelandic:málsháttur (is) m,orðskviður m
- Ido:proverbo (io)
- Indonesian:peribahasa (id)
- Ingrian:sananverto
- Irish:seanfhocal m
- Italian:proverbio (it) m
- Ivatan:pananahan
- Japanese:諺 (ja)(ことわざ, kotowaza),格言 (ja)(かくげん, kakugen)
- Kazakh:мақал(maqal)
- Khmer:សុភាសិត (km)(sophiəsət)
- Korean:속담(俗談) (ko)(sokdam),격언(格言) (ko)(gyeogeon)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish:gotinên pêşiyan (ku),gotina mezinan (ku)
- Kyrgyz:макал(makal)
- Lao:ພາສິດ(phā sit),ສຸພາສິດ(su phā sit)
- Latin:adagiō f,adagium n,paroemia f,proverbium n,sententia f
- Latvian:sakāmvārds (lv) m,paruna (lv) f
- Lithuanian:patarlė f
- Low German:Snacks
- German Low German:Spriekel (nds) n(Vest Recklinghausen)
- Luxembourgish:Sprachwuert n
- Macedonian:поговорка f(pogovorka),изрека f(izreka),пословица f(poslovica)
- Malay:peribahasa (ms)
- Malayalam:പഴഞ്ചൊല്ല് (ml)(paḻañcollŭ),പഴമൊഴി (ml)(paḻamoḻi)
- Maltese:qawl m
- Maori:rārangi whakataukī
- Marwari:कैवत(kaivat)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic:зүйр цэцэн үг(züjr cecen üg),зүйр үг(züjr üg)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:ordtak (no) n
- Nynorsk:ordtak n
- Old English:biword n
- Oromo:mammaaksa
- Ossetian:ӕмбисонд(æmbisond)
- Pannonian Rusyn:присловка f(prislovka)
- Pashto:متل m(matál),مثل m(masál),ضرب المثل m(zarbo l-masal)
- Persian:
- Dari:مَثَل(masal),مَقَال(maqāl),ضَرْبُ الْمَثَل(zarbu l-masal)
- Iranian Persian:مَثَل(masal),مَقال(mağâl),ضَرْبُ الْمَثَل(zarbo l-masal)
- Polish:przysłowie (pl) n
- Portuguese:provérbio (pt) m
- Romanian:proverb (ro) n,proverbe (ro) n pl
- Russian:посло́вица (ru) f(poslóvica),погово́рка (ru) f(pogovórka),при́сказка (ru) f(prískazka)
- Scottish Gaelic:seanfhacal m,gnàth-fhacal m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic:по̀словица f
- Roman:pòslovica (sh) f
- Slovak:príslovie n
- Slovene:pregovor (sl) m
- Spanish:proverbio (es) m,refrán (es) m,paremia (es) f,retraher m
- Swahili:methali (sw)
- Swedish:ordspråk (sv) n
- Tagalog:salawikain
- Tajik:масал(masal),мақол(maqol),зарбулмасал(zarbulmasal)
- Tamil:பழமொழி (ta)(paḻamoḻi)
- Tatar:мәкаль (tt)(mäkal’)
- Telugu:నానుడి (te)(nānuḍi),సామెత (te)(sāmeta),లోకోక్తి (te)(lōkōkti)
- Thai:ภาษิต (th)(paa-sìt),สุภาษิต (th)(sù-paa-sìt)
- Tibetan:གཏམ་དཔེ།(gtam dpe)
- Turkish:atasözü (tr),darbımesel (tr)
- Turkmen:atalar sözi,nakyl
- Ukrainian:прислі́в'я (uk) n(pryslívʺja),при́казка f(prýkazka)
- Urdu:مَثَل f(masal),کَہاوَت f(kahāvat),ضَرْبُ الْمَثَل f(zarbu l-masal)
- Uyghur:ھېكمەت(hëkmet),ماقال(maqal)
- Uzbek:maqol (uz),masal (uz),zarbulmasal (uz)
- Vietnamese:tục ngữ (vi) (俗語)
- Volapük:spiket (vo),(older term)pükedavöd
- Welsh:dihareb (cy) f
- Yiddish:שפּריכוואָרט (yi) n(shprikhvort),וועלטסווערטל n(veltsvertl),פֿאָלקסווערטל n(folksvertl)
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