Hindi Proverbs and their English Equivalents

This happened about 10 years back..

While sitting at the breakfast table, my daughter kept swinging her leg, which kept banging into mine and then I turned around and said, in Hindi, "Sau sonaar ki, ek lohaar ki."

This started off a discussion of what it meant and whether there was an equivalent of this, in English.

Which led me into a hunt for more English equivalents of Hindi Proverbs.

I've taken the liberty of spelling out all Hindi words in English.

I hope you get it right the first time .. or at least, the second!

Disclaimer: I'm no expert on either Hindi or English, so if you notice errors, please go right ahead and point them out!

I crawled the Net to find lists of Hindi proverbs and English proverbs — didn’t find too many at the time, so I sat down and tried to compile my own.

The following list is what I came up with.

As I said, I’m no expert - but I’m happy with the effort. Hope you enjoy reading these:

By the way, I never did find the equivalent of "Sau sonaar ki, ek lohaar ki"!!

Feel free to add to this list ☺

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