there's no place like home

English

Proverb

there's no place like home

One feels most comfortable at home.

Translations

one feels most comfortable at home

Arabic: لَا مَكَان كَالْوَطَن (lā makān ka-l-waṭan)
Catalan: la meva casa i la meva llar mil unces valen (literally “my house and my home are worth a thousand ounces”), val més el fum de casa meva que el foc de la teva (literally “the smoke of my house is worth more than the fire of yours”)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 在家千日好 (zài jiā qiān rì hǎo, literally “at home a thousand days are good”)
Czech: všude dobře, doma nejlíp
Danish: ude godt, men hjemme bedst (da), øst vest, hjemme bedst
Dutch: oost west, thuis best
Faroese: úti er gott, heima er best, eyst í vest, heimstaðið best
Finnish: poissa hyvä, kotona paras
French: il n’y a pas de petit chez soi, on n’est bien que chez soi
German: nichts ist vergleichbar mit dem eigenen zu Hause, Ost und West, daheim am best, daheim ist daheim (de)
Greek: σπίτι μου, σπιτάκι μου και φτωχοκαλυβάκι μου (spíti mou, spitáki mou kai ftochokalyváki mou)
Hungarian: mindenütt jó, de legjobb otthon (hu)
Indonesian: rumahku surgaku, rumahku istanaku
Irish: níl aon tinteán mar do thinteán féin (literally “there's no hearth like your own hearth”)
Italian: dove si nasce, ogni erba pasce
Jamaican Creole: nuh weh nuh betta dan yard
Japanese: 住めば都 (すめばみやこ, sumeba miyako, literally “if you live somewhere, it's the royal palace to you”), 我が家ほど良い場所はない (わがいえほどよいばしょはない, waga ie hodo yoi basho wa nai)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: Şam şekir e lê welat şirîntir e (ku) (literally “Damascus is sugar, but one's own land is even sweeter”)
Latin: nullus est locus domestica sede iucundior
Luxembourgish: et ass néierens besser wéi doheem
Norwegian: borte bra, men hjemme best (no)
Polish: wszędzie dobrze, ale w domu najlepiej (pl) (literally “everywhere is good, but the home is best”)
Portuguese: não há lugar como nosso lar
Romanian: nicăieri nu e ca acasă
Russian: в гостя́х хорошо́, а до́ма лу́чше (ru) (v gostjáx xorošó, a dóma lúčše)
Scottish Gaelic: is binn guth an eòin far an do rugadh e (literally “sweet is the voice of the bird where it was born”), nach binn guth an eòin far na dh'fhàs e (literally “isn't the voice of the bird sweet where it grew”)
Serbo-Croatian: svugdje je lijepo, ali doma je najljepše
Roman: svuda pođi, kući dođi
Slovene: povsod je lepo, a doma je najlepše
Spanish: mi casa y mi hogar cien doblas val, como en casa, en ningún sitio
Swedish: borta bra men hemma bäst
Turkish: insanın evi gibisi yok
Welsh: does unman yn debyg i gartref (cy)

References

Gregory Y. Titelman, Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings, 1996, →ISBN, p. 330.

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