Proverbs - Mother Tongue

Afghanistan

Blessings, curses and proverbs - Herat

Blessings, curses and proverbs - Israel

Bukhara

Proverbs - Shahrisabz

Proverbs - Shahrisabz

Proverbs - Samarkand

Proverbs - Samarkand

Proverbs - Bishkek

Proverbs - Bishkek

Europe - West

Proverbs - Endingen

Proverbs - Lucerne

Western Yiddish expressions (Alsace dialect) - Lucerne

Western Yiddish expressions (Alsace dialect) - Zurich

Greece

Stories and proverbs - Ioannina

Iran

Idioms and phrases - Bijar

Jewish holidays - Bijar

Proverbs - Sanandaj

Iraq

Friend helps in times of trouble - Mosul

Proverbs and stories - Baghdad

Kurdistan

Proverbs and family expressions - Israel

Proverbs and family expressions - Amadiya

Sayings of the parents - Amadiya

Sayings of the parents - Israel

Libya

Songs and women's proverbs - Benghazi

Morocco

Proverbs, curses and blessings - Fes

Proverbs, curses and blessings - Mazagan (El Jadida)

Tunisia

In his life he longed to eat one date, and when he died they hung a cluster of dates on his neck - Zarzis

A bald woman takes pride in her sister-in-law's hair - Zarzis

Anyone who relied on a wedding meal, would sleep without dinner - Zarzis

Anyone who walks on fire gets burnt - Zarzis

Beware of a dripping house and a chattering wife - Zarzis

Dog's tail placed in a press for forty years and still remain curved - Zarzis

Even if you found honey, don't eat it all - Zarzis

Haste is from the devil and patiently you will sell things - Zarzis

If a brother would have loved his siblings, they would not weep for their father's death - Zarzis

if it wasn't for eating, man would have grown diamonds - Zarzis

If the camel saw its hump, it would cut its neck off - Zarzis

If the Hakadosh Baruch Hu (Almighty) had not blinded the gentiles, we couldn't have lived with them - Zarzis

If you find honey, eat it and leave a little - Zarzis

Many captains drown the ship - Zarzis

Proverbs - Moknine

Rooster sunk in stool and calls Kukuriku - Zarzis

Selling the monkey and laughing at the buyer - Zarzis

Thanks to the oil all the merchandise is sold - Zarzis

The layabout has the advice - Zarzis

The satiated man does not cry over hunger - Zarzis

Yemen

Life wisdom - Ḥawlan

Proverbs - Sodom (Ḥawlan)

Proverbs and song - Habban

Tales and proverbs - Ḥawlan

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