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 * அஞ்சு குஞ்சும் கறியாமே? அறியாப் பெண்ணும் பெண்டாமோ?
 * Are five young birds a curry? Is a young girl a wife?

 
 * அஞ்சுக்கு இரண்டு பழுதில்லை.
 * Of the five senses two are uninjured.
 * Used with reference to some, of several desiderated objects that have been accomplished, or of some things that remain uninjured.

 
 * அஞ்சு பணம் கொடுத்தாலும், இத்தனை ஆத்திரம் ஆகாது.
 * Even if you were to give away five fanams, such haste or precipitation will not do.
 * Precipitance in judgment is worse than actual loss.

 
 * அஞ்சும் மூன்றும் உண்டானால், அறியாப் பெண்ணும் கறி சமைக்கும்.
 * If possessed of five and three, even a young girl may make a curry.
 * The five are acid, pepper, salt, mustard, and cumin; the three, are water, fuel and fire.
 * This proverb is used by a man when his wife has prepared a curry that does not please him.

 
 * அஞ்சுருத்தாலி நெஞ்சுருவக் கட்டிக்கொண்டு வந்தாற்போல் வலக்காரமாய்ப் பேசுகிறாய்.
 * Thou speakest ostentatiously as a matron who has come having her bosom adorned with a táli ornamented with five figures.
 * The táli is a marriage symbol used as a wedding ring is in Europe. Various astrological observances attend the melting of the gold &c. The five forms referred to are the five weapons of Vishnu. Viz. the discus, the club, the conch, the bow and the sword.
 * The Romanists ornament the táli with the figure of a dove.

 
 * அஞ்சு வயது ஆண்பிள்ளைக்கு ஐம்பது வயதுப் பெண் கால் முடக்கவேண்டும்.
 * A woman of fifty must bend the knee before a boy of five.
 * Referring to the deference paid to the male sex by the Hindus.

 
 * அஞ்சுவோரைக் கெஞ்சடிக்கப் பார்க்கிறான்.
 * He aims to humble the timid by force.

 