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Ladino proverbs

The proverbs of Ladino Forever: sayings from the Sephardic kitchen table, the wisdom of our grandmothers in Judeo-Spanish, each with its meaning in English and up to six more languages.

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Refrán del día · November 9
Ni la esfuegra se aze madre ni la ermuera se aze ija A mother-in-law doesn't become a mother, nor a daughter-in-law a daughter.
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Refrán № 343 Ladino
El ke tiene moneda i no la goza, al otro mundo no arepoza

He who has money and does not enjoy it will not rest in the other world.

78 Nov 2026
Refrán № 344 Ladino
Mil kandelas no azen un sol

A thousand candles do not make a sun.

78 Nov 2026
Refrán № 345 Ladino
Yerno komo el sol de invierno

A son-in-law is like the winter sun.

78 Nov 2026
Refrán № 346 Ladino
Nada se alkansa sin dolor

Nothing is achieved without pain.

78 Nov 2026
Refrán № 347 Ladino
Kon dizir fuego no se kema la boka

Saying "fire" does not burn the mouth.

78 Nov 2026
Refrán № 348 Ladino
Agua arovada es mas dulse

Stolen water is sweeter.

78 Nov 2026
Refrán № 349 Ladino
Ken lazdra en la manseves alkansa la vejes

Whoever toils in youth reaches old age.

78 Nov 2026
Refrán № 350 Ladino
En korason amargozo no entra ni riza ni gozo

Into a bitter heart enters neither laughter nor joy.

78 Nov 2026
Refrán № 351 Ladino
El amor es temporario komo el ayre del enverano pasa i se va

Love is temporary, like the winter wind: it passes and goes.

78 Nov 2026
Refrán № 352 Ladino
La butika aze kaza, la kaza no aze butika

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

78 Nov 2026
Refrán № 353 Ladino
Los vizinos son mas ke parientes i mas ke primos

Neighbors are more than relatives and more than cousins.

78 Nov 2026
Refrán № 354 Ladino
La limpyeza es medya rikeza

Cleanliness is half of wealth.

78 Nov 2026
Refrán № 355 Ladino
Hijos no tiene, inyetos le yoran

He has no children, yet grandchildren cry for him.

78 Nov 2026
Refrán № 356 Ladino
Los ijos se konosen kuando los paryentes se envejesen

Children are known when their parents grow old.

78 Nov 2026
Refrán № 357 Ladino
Ninguno ke no manke de su kaza

No one who is not missing from his own home.

77 Nov 2026
Refrán № 358 Ladino
Kuando ombre i mujer kazan se eskapa su romansa i sus istorya empesa

When a man and a woman marry, their romance ends and their (real) story begins.

77 Nov 2026
Refrán № 359 Ladino
Pleto entre marido i mujer, la kolcha deve de venser

In a quarrel between husband and wife, the bedspread must win.

77 Nov 2026
Refrán № 360 Ladino
Kada dia no es boda

Every day is not a wedding.

77 Nov 2026
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