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Ladino proverbs

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Refrán del día · November 8
El mal i el bien en la kara se ven Good and evil show on the face.
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Refrán № 01 Ladino
Si mi padre no me kaza le komo la kaza

If my father doesn't marry me off, I'll eat up the house.

61 Nov 2026
Refrán № 02 Ladino
La ropa suzya se lava en kaza

Dirty laundry is washed at home.

58 Nov 2026
Refrán № 03 Ladino
Ken se kaza kon amor bive kon dolor

He who marries for love lives with pain.

70 Nov 2026
Refrán № 04 Ladino
Madre Nikochera le sale ija haragana

A housekeeping mother gets a lazy daughter.

64 Nov 2026
Refrán № 05 Ladino
El ke adova la gotera adova la kaza entera

He who fixes the leak fixes the whole house.

51 Nov 2026
Refrán № 06 Ladino
Ken se kaza i fragua El Dio lo apiyada

God takes pity on whoever marries and builds.

65 Nov 2026
Refrán № 07 Ladino
Es mijor ser mosa en tu kaza, ke mosa de la djente

It is better to be a maid in your own house than a maid for strangers.

56 Nov 2026
Refrán № 08 Ladino
No tomes kaza toma vizino

Do not take a house, take a neighbor.

56 Nov 2026
Refrán № 09 Ladino
El Dio ke moz guadre de kaza i de ora mala

May God keep us safe at home and from the evil hour.

53 Nov 2026
Refrán № 10 Ladino
Ninguno ke no manke de su kaza

No one who is not missing from his own home.

54 Nov 2026
Refrán № 11 Ladino
Kuento de kaza no sale a la plaza

A story of the house does not go out to the square.

58 Nov 2026
Refrán № 12 Ladino
La kaza es un pozo ke no decha repozo

The house is a well that gives no rest.

60 Nov 2026
Refrán № 13 Ladino
Kada kual en su kaza, El Dio en las de Todos

Each one in his own house, God in everyone's.

54 Nov 2026
Refrán № 14 Ladino
Kaza kon sol no vijita el doktor

A house with sun is not visited by the doctor.

39 Nov 2026
Refrán № 15 Ladino
La madre es el sol de la kaza

The mother is the sun of the home.

49 Nov 2026
Refrán № 16 Ladino
Luz de la kaye oskuridad de la kaza

Light in the street, darkness in the house.

49 Nov 2026
Refrán № 17 Ladino
Kazala a tu ija komo puedes, a tu ijo komo keres

Marry off your daughter as you can, your son as you wish.

70 Nov 2026
Refrán № 18 Ladino
La butika aze kaza, la kaza no aze butika

The shop makes the house; the house does not make the shop.

56 Nov 2026
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