Malayalam proverbs

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• Ariyethra? Payar anjaazhi.
  • How much rice you have? I have enough beans.(translation)

• kupayil kalanjalum, alannu kalayanam.
  • Even if you throw as waste, you should measure and throw.(translation)

• Moothavarude vaakum muthu nellikayum aadhyam kaykum, pinne madhurikkum.
  • Obey what the elders tell you, at first they may sound sour, later it will be sweet.(Trans)

The original proverb in old Malayalam is thus:

• Moothavar chollum muthu nellikka; aadhyam kaykkum pinne madhurikkum.
  • An elders advice is like gooseberries; at first sour then sweet. (trans)

• Mukilla Rajyathu Murimukkan Rajavu (Malayalam)
  • (In the land of people with no nose, the half-nose man is the king)
  • Similar to "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king". Referring that among unscholared people, a half-knowledged man is a scholar.

• Onam vannaalum Unni pirannaalum korante kanji kumbilil thanne
  • Be it Onam, be it birth of new child, the layman gets served gruel. (trans)
    • Whatever be the occasion, there is no advantage for poor people. Poor people remain poor.(Gist)

• Vithu Gunam Pathu Gunam
  • As you sow, so you reap. (trans)

• Ariyaatha pillakku chroriyumbol ariyum.
  • The ignorant child , learns when it itches. (trans)
    • If people don't realise the magnitude of a problem, the shall do so the hard way; as it hits them. (gist)

• Nadukadalil chennalum naaya nakkiye kudikku
  • Even in you take him to the middle of the ocean, a dog will only lap water, not drink it.
    • You do what you are, hence you are what you do. (english equivalent)

• Othu pidichal malayum porum, Othillenkil Malannu Veezhum
  • Together we stand. Divided we fall (engilish equivalent)

• Paashaanatthil krimi
  • Worm of the poison(so used to address someone inimically,saying this person can survive in poison so he's very poisonous himself. )ru:Малаяльские пословицы
• Payyethinnal panayum thinnam
  • Eat slowly, you can eat even a palm( trans)
    • take your time, you can complete anything

• velukkaan thechathu paandaayi

• Minnunnathellaam ponnalla
  • All that glitters are not gold

• Kaakka kulichaal kokkaakummo?
  • If crow baths, will it become a crane (Trans)