proverb

saying that gives advice, usually as a metaphor
Intangible literary_genre Q35102
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proverb

Summary

proverb is a literary genre[1]. proverb ranks in the top 8% of literary_genre entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (501 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • proverb's image is recorded as Jesus-College-MS-111 00480 240v (cropped) Diarhebion.jpg[3].
  • proverb's instance of is recorded as literary genre[4].
  • proverb's GND ID is recorded as 4056550-6[5].
  • proverb's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85107840[6].
  • proverb's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11947434s[7].
  • proverb's subclass of is recorded as paroimia[8].
  • proverb's subclass of is recorded as saying[9].
  • proverb's subclass of is recorded as popular saying[10].
  • proverb's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00566814[11].
  • proverb's part of is recorded as small genre of folklore[12].
  • proverb's Commons category is recorded as Proverbs[13].
  • proverb's said to be the same as is recorded as paroimia[14].
  • proverb's said to be the same as is recorded as Pepatah[15].
  • proverb's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D001045[16].
  • proverb's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 2665[17].
  • proverb's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/05vz1[18].
  • proverb's MeSH tree code is recorded as K01.517.116[19].
  • proverb's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Proverbs[20].
  • proverb's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300188783[21].
  • proverb's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 398.9[22].
  • proverb's PSH ID is recorded as 6991[23].
  • proverb's Library of Congress Classification is recorded as PN6400-PN6525[24].
  • proverb's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0137924[25].
  • proverb's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[26].
  • proverb's described by source is recorded as Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[27].

Why It Matters

proverb ranks in the top 8% of literary_genre entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (501 views/month).[2] proverb has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] proverb is known by 53 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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