Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

What goes around comes around

Malay translation:

semua tindakan ada tindak/tindakan balas

Added to glossary by yam2u
Oct 17, 2010 07:07
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English term

What goes around comes around

English to Malay Art/Literary Poetry & Literature Peribahasa
There is a law, called the Law of Reciprocity, which focuses on the idea that what goes around comes around.
Proposed translations (Malay)
4 semua tindakan ada tindak/tindakan balas
Change log

Oct 18, 2010 13:18: yam2u changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/1265924">azmimi's</a> old entry - "What goes around comes around"" to ""semua tindakan ada tindak/tindakan balas""

Proposed translations

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semua tindakan ada tindak/tindakan balas


~ "what goes around comes around" is an idiomatic expression.

~ usually with such translations, you either come up with a corresponding malay idiom or you transliterate the sense.

~ an equivalent in malay idiom is probably "ada ubi, ada batas. ada budi ada balas."

~ however in this context, it would be more suitable to just transliterate the sense of "reciprocity" i.e. of "every action has a reaction.
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