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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 3
No traves la kuedra muncho ke se aranka Don't pull the rope too hard or it will snap.

36 proverbs in Family

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Refrán № 19 Ladino
La mujer baylando el marido yorando

The wife dances while the husband cries.

21 Nov 2026
Refrán № 20 Ladino
La mujer destruyedera vazya del marido la aldikera

A wasteful wife empties her husband's pocket.

16 Nov 2026
Refrán № 21 Ladino
Kresen los ijos, pujan las ansias

As the children grow, the worries grow.

20 Nov 2026
Refrán № 22 Ladino
Si de tu novya izites tu mujer, aze tambien te tu mujer tu novya

If you made your bride your wife, make your wife your bride too.

16 Nov 2026
Refrán № 23 Ladino
Marido en kaza dolor de keshada

A husband at home is a pain in the jaw.

13 Nov 2026
Refrán № 24 Ladino
El ke no oye a su mujerika se trava la orejika

He who doesn't listen to his dear wife gets his little ear pulled.

19 Nov 2026
Refrán № 25 Ladino
Kuando una mujer se le yela el korason, se le sana la kavesa

When a woman's heart freezes, her head gets cured.

18 Nov 2026
Refrán № 26 Ladino
Ni novya sin velo ni mujer sin selo

Neither a bride without a veil nor a wife without jealousy.

22 Nov 2026
Refrán № 27 Ladino
La mujer no es kamiza ke se troka

A woman is not a shirt to be changed.

19 Nov 2026
Refrán № 28 Ladino
Mala la madre, mala la ija, mala la kolcha ke las kuvija

Bad the mother, bad the daughter, bad the quilt that covers them.

18 Nov 2026
Refrán № 29 Ladino
De tal palo tala estiya, de tal padre tal ijo

From such a tree, such a splinter; like father, like son.

31 2 Nov 2026
Refrán № 30 Ladino
Todos los dedos de la mano no son uno

All the fingers of the hand are not the same.

22 Nov 2026
Refrán № 31 Ladino
Las ideas son komo pulgas, saltan de uno al otro ma no pikan a todos

Ideas are like fleas: they jump from one person to another, but they don't bite everyone.

19 Nov 2026
Refrán № 32 Ladino
Ande no ay Madre no ay ni Padre

Where there is no mother, there is no father either.

18 1 Nov 2026
Refrán № 33 Ladino
No lo yames yerno fista ke tenga el aniyo en el dedo

Do not call him a son in law till he has the ring on his finger.

16 Nov 2026
Refrán № 34 Ladino
Ni bivda sin dolor, ni ija sin amor

Neither a widow without pain nor a girl without love.

23 Nov 2026
Refrán № 35 Ladino
La mujer aze, La mujer dezaze

A woman makes, a woman destroys.

14 Nov 2026
Refrán № 36 Ladino
Padre i Madre es una vez

Father and Mother is only once.

39 4 Nov 2026
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