13/09/2017
The brief study of the similarities between Arakanese and English proverbs --(1)
(1) Water falling into sand.
ၾကက္ဖင္မာ ရီဆံုး
(2) Out of sight, out of mind.
ငါးစိမ္းျမင္ ငါးကင္ပစ္
(3) Silence is golden.
တိန္းလို႔နိန္စြာ အေကာင္းဆုံး
(4) He tries to walk before he can crawl.
ဆိတ္မသီခင္လစိေဖာက္
(5) Marriage is destiny.
ဖူးစာပါေက ၿပီးမလြတ္
(6) Don't take a hummer to crack a nut.
ၾကမ္းပိုးကို လိပ္လုပ္
(7) Let not your tongue cut your throat.
အသံေၾကာင့္ ဖားသီ
(8) Too many cooks spoil the broth.
ဆရာမ်ား သားသီ
(9) Carrying coals to Newcastle.
ကုလားရြာမာ ဝက္သားေရာင္း
(10) To bring oil/fuel to the fire.
ႏြားၿပီးရာမာ ဖ်ာဆိုးရြင့္
(11) Blood is thicker than water.
အေရးၾကီးေက သီြးစည္းေရ
(12) Honesty is the best policy.
ရိုးဂုဏ္တစ္လုံး အျမတ္ဆုံး
(13) Among the blind a one-eyed man is king.
ၿပိန္းေတာမာ ဓားက / ငါးမဟိရာမာ မ်ဳိင္စြံ
(14) A drop in the ocean.
ဆင္ပါးစပ္မာ ႏွမ္းက်ပိုင္
(15) Thief shouts; " Thief! Thief! "
လိပ္ေက်ာက္မာပိုင္အျပန္ကြ
(16) Cut your coat according to your cloth.
ဆင္မာလည္းဆင္အထြာ ပရြက္စိတ္ေကမာလည္းပရြက္စိတ္ေကအထြာ
(17) The proof the pudding is in the eating.
ေရႊအေၾကာင္းဖေယာင္းသိ လူအေၾကာင္းေပါင္းမွသိ
(18) Man proposes, God disposes.
လူအလိုနတ္မလိုက္နိုင္
(19) A burden of one's own choice is not felt.
ကိုယ္ျခီေက လီမျဖစ္
(20) Robbing Peter to pay Paul.
သူခိုးလက္က သူဝွက္လု
(21) To wash one's dirty linen in public.
ကိုယ့္ေပါင္ကိုယ္လွန္ထိုး
(22) A shy/timid cat makes a proud mouse.
က်င္သန္အို ၾကက္နွင္မရ
Ref;
-http://www.proverbhunter.com
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