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WikiProverbs is free online multi-lingual proverb compendium.
WikiProverbs provides a platform (a well-known Wikipedia-like interface) to document, describe and research proverbs belonging to different languages and cultures. With WikiProverbs one can now document proverbs, provide information about proverbs (e.g. meaning, context, usage) and group proverbs in different languages according to the meaning (see the Proverb of the Day section below).
WikiProverbs can be viewed in different languages, to change the language use links in the left navigation panel.
To go to the proverbs you can either browse by the language (the links to the right), use the search in the left panel or take a deep breath and jump to a Random Proverb.

WikiProverbs currently features
proverbs in the following languages:


Proverb of the Day
The Israeli Proverb Index Project

WikiProverbs hosts The Israeli Proverb Index Project, the major archive of proverbs of Israeli communities, collected during years of fieldwork by the scholars of Folklore Research Center, The Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. You can read more about this project here. The archive counts several thousand proverbs and its digitization is yet in process. Some parts of it are already available:



Dr. Isay Zolotnitsky
The project is inspired by the work of a proverb researcher Dr. Isay Zolotnitsky(1905-1994). His proverb collection is laid as the core contents of WikiProverbs.
Read more about this remarkable person here.
Our Vision

WikiProverbs is created for free use by linguists, folklorists, writers, journalists, anthropologists, translators, or anyone who wishes to research this fascinating domain of human language or simply enrich the vocabulary by using authentic proverbs.

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