Proverbs - Mother Tongue

Afghanistan

Herat

Blessings, curses and proverbs

Israel

Blessings, curses and proverbs

Algeria

El Oued (Souf)

Proverbs and expressions

Proverbs and languages

Israel

Proverbs and expressions

Bukhara

Bishkek

Proverbs

Proverbs

Samarkand

Proverbs

Proverbs

Shahrisabz

Proverbs

Proverbs

Tashkent

Proverbs and folktales

Caucasus

Quba

Proverbs

Egypt

Cairo

Proverbs

Sayings, proverbs, songs and blessings

Europe: Western

Endingen

Proverbs

Western Yiddish expressions (Alsace dialect)

Lucerne

Proverbs

Western Yiddish expressions (Alsace dialect)

Wissembourg (France)

The Jewish communities in Alsace-Lorraine, Jewish occupations and expressions

Zurich (Switzerland)

Proverbs

The Jewish communities in Alsace-Lorraine, Jewish occupations and expressions

Western Yiddish expressions (Alsace dialect)

Greece

Aigio

Curses

Ioannina

Stories and proverbs

Trikala

Blessings and reciting Shema Yisrael

Volos

Proverbs and folk song

Iran

Arak

Proverbs and secret language

Bijar

Idioms and phrases

Jewish holidays

Borujerd

Proverb and story

Golpayegan

Proverbs and secret language

Gorgan

Proverbs

Hamadan

Poetry, phrases and proverbs

Istanbul

Days of the week and proverbs in Aramaic

Kermanshah

Poetry, phrases and proverbs

Khorramshahr

Proverbs and short stories

Salmas

Days of the week and proverbs in Aramaic

Sanandaj

Proverbs

Teheran

Poetry, phrases and proverbs

Proverbs

Iraq

Baghdad

Proverb against betrayal

Proverbs

Proverbs and stories

Basra

Proverbs

Kirkuk

Proverbs

Mosul

Friend helps in times of trouble

Israel

Hebron

Songs and proverbs

Jerusalem

Expressions and proverbs

Judeo-Spanish and proverbs

Proverbs

Songs and proverbs

Thessaloniki

Proverbs

Tiberias

Proverbs

Kurdistan

Amadiya

Proverbs and family expressions

Sayings of the parents

Baghdad

Proverb: leave us alone, we left you alone

Duhok

Proverb: leave us alone, we left you alone

Israel

Proverbs and family expressions

Sayings of the parents

Rekan

Proverbs and jokes

Zakho

Lebanon

Beirut

Proverbs

Grandmother's proverbs

Proverbs

Proverbs and blessings

Libya

Amrus

Wisdom of life and the proverb of grandmothers

Benghazi

Songs and women's proverbs

Msallata

Differences between Msallata and Tripoli dialects and proverbs

Song and proverb: "You laugh, the world laughs"

Tripoli

Collection of proverbs and their meaning

Morocco

Aït Bouguemmaz

Blessings through the righteous

Asilah

Curses

Foods and proverbs

Beni Mellal

Proverbs

Casablanca

Blessings and proverbs

Grandmother's proverbs

Proverb about good-will that ends in disaster

Proverbs

Proverbs and wise words

Fedala (Mohammedia)

Fes

Proverb

Proverbs and their meanings

Proverbs, curses and blessings

Israel

Proverb: had the owl been fine, the hunters would not have thrown it away

Marrakesh

Blessings and congratulations

Education in a pleasant and soft language

Language and proverbs

Proverb about good-will that ends in disaster

Proverbs and blessings

Proverbs and blessings

Proverbs and expressions

Mazagan (El Jadida)

Proverbs, curses and blessings

Meknes

Proverbs

Proverbs and short tales

Proverbs and wise words

Ouarzazate

Blessings and proverbs

Grandmother's proverbs

Her mother's wise sayings

Proverb about a lamb

Proverb: accompany the thief to the doorstep of the house

Raḥel's proverb

Saving for a time of trouble proverb

Oumnass

Proverb about good-will that ends in disaster

Sefrou

Proverbs and expressions

Tangier

Proverbs

Tirsal

Proverb: had the owl been fine, the hunters would not have thrown it away

Tiznit

Proverb: had the owl been fine, the hunters would not have thrown it away

Syria

Aleppo

Proverbs

Proverbs

Damascus

Everyday life proverbs and sayings

Proverbs

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye): proverbs and traditions

Tunisia

Djerba

Gabes

Dialects in Tunisia and proverbs

Proverbs

Proverbs and word play

Gafsa

Parable about beauty

Proverbs and songs

Women's gathering, story readings and women's honour

La Goulette

Proverbs and blessings

Matmata

Proverbs

Moknine

Proverbs

Proverbs

Nabeul

Proverbs and short wisdom stories

Tunis

Song and proverb

Zarzis

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

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

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

Anyone who walks on fire gets burnt

Beware of a dripping house and a chattering wife

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

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

Haste is from the devil and patiently you will sell things

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

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

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

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

If you find honey, eat it and leave a little

Many captains drown the ship

Rooster sunk in stool and calls Kukuriku

Selling the monkey and laughing at the buyer

Thanks to the oil all the merchandise is sold

The layabout has the advice

The satiated man does not cry over hunger

Turkey

Edirne

Proverbs

Israel

Proverbs

Istanbul

Three folk songs and a proverb

פתגם ושיר

Izmir

Proverbs

Proverbs

Proverbs

Sacred songs and proverb

Yemen

Al Maḥwit

Her grandmother's sayings regarding marriage and women

Bani Hajaj

Proverbs

Bayt Baws

Proverbs of forgetfulness: I don't remember if I slept, I don't remember you

Dayan

Proverbs in Yemenite

Ḥabban

Proverbs and song

Ḥaima

Proverbs

Hajjah

Proverbs and idioms

Ḥawlan

Proverb and wedding songs

Proverbs

Tales and proverbs

Ḥaydan as-Sham

Haz

Mother's proverbs

Israel

Radaʿa

Proverbs

Raymah

Proverbs

Saada

Expressions, proverbs and jokes

Sanaʽa

Modesty proverbs and women

Sodom (Ḥawlan)

Proverbs

Tanˁam

Proverbs

ʿAden

Arabic of ʿAden: description, proverbs and blessings

ʿAnaka

Proverbs of forgetfulness: I don't remember if I slept, I don't remember you

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