It is really a great idea to know about proverbs of all regional languages, including Hindi. Let us make it a learning tool and share some new ideas.
Let me start with 3 such proverbs with English translation. Can you add some more?
1. Minnunnathellaam Ponnalla - All that glitters are not gold(No change in meaning from English)
2. Muttathe Mullakku Manamilla/Akkara Paccha.......(Jasmine at our courtyard has no perfume/Only the other shore is green) Meaning.....We never see what's in our hand, we search it somewhere else.
3. Paavathinte Kanjiyil Paattayidaruth (Don't put cock roach in poor man's Kanji-food of poor people). Meaning...live and let live!
Meera sandhu
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1. merisaydantha bangaram kadu - all gliters are not gold.
2. arichey kukka karavadu - barking dogs never bite.
3. minga methuku leydu mesaniki sampanga noonay - there is no food eat but need jasmin oil for mustache.
4. Prathee kukkaki oka roju vasthadi - every dog has its day
1. merisaydantha bangaram kadu - all gliters are not gold.
2. arichey kukka karavadu - barking dogs never bite. (Kurakkunna Patti kadikkilla)
3. minga methuku leydu mesaniki sampanga noonay - there is no food eat but need jasmin oil for mustache.
4. Prathee kukkaki oka roju vasthadi(Ethoru pattikkum oru divasam varum) - every dog has its day
Some more.....
"Achan ichichathum paal vaidyan kalpichathum paal".....What father has desired is Milk, what his doctor gave him as medicine is also milk....(If everything comes under our way)
"Mongaanirunna pattiyude thalayail theenga veenu".....(A dog was sitting thinking about a reason to cry. A coconut fell on his head and he got a reason for crying)....ha ha...a funny one
kusay gaadida vatchi meysay gadidanu cheyda gottindi - The donkey which shouting has disturbed and spoiled the donkey which is having food.
Example : if there 2 people, and one is good and the other is bad. But this bad person makes the good person as bad one.
Our proverb similar to this one....
"Neerkkoli mathi athaazham mudakkaan"
Even a poison-less snake is enough to make supper waste. (i.e. we can't eat that food....isn't it, even if a useless creature falls on it)...ha ha
Meaning- Even useless fellows can make our day a waste......
