- Bengali: ঘর পোড়া গরু সিঁদুরে মেঘ দেখে ডরায় (bn) (ghor pōṛa goru śĩdure megh dekhe ḍoraẏ)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井繩 / 一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井绳 (zh) (yī zhāo bèi shé yǎo, shí nián pà jǐng shéng)
- Danish: brændt barn skyr ilden
- Dutch: door schade en schande wordt men wijs, een ezel stoot zich geen tweemaal aan dezelfde steen, een gewaarschuwd mens telt voor twee
- Finnish: Siperia opettaa (literally “Siberia teaches”)
- French: chat échaudé craint l'eau froide (fr) (literally “a scalded cat is afraid of cold water”)
- Galician: cos escarmentados fanse os avisados
- German: ein gebranntes Kind scheut das Feuer
- Greek: όποιος καεί με τον χυλό, φυσάει και το γιαούρτι (ópoios kaeí me ton chyló, fysáei kai to giaoúrti)
- Hebrew: מִי שֶׁנִכְוָה בְּרוֹתְחִין נִזְהָר בְּצוֹנְנִין (he) (mi shenikhvá berotkhín niz'hár betzonenín)
- Hindi: दूध का जला छाँछ भी फूँक कर पीता है (dūdh kā jalā chā̃ch bhī phū̃k kar pītā hai)
- Hungarian: akit a kígyó megmart, a gyíktól is fél
- Icelandic: (a child burnt shuns the fire) brennt barn forðast eldinn (is)
- Italian: gatto scottato teme l'acqua fredda
- Japanese: 羮に懲りて膾を吹く (ja) (あつものにこりてなますをふく, atsumono ni korite namasu o fuku)
- Macedonian: кога ќе се изгори од млекото, ќе дува и на маштеницата (koga ḱe se izgori od mlekoto, ḱe duva i na maštenicata)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: brent barn skyr ilden
- Nynorsk: brent barn skyr elden
- Polish: kto się na gorącym sparzył, ten na zimne dmucha (pl)
- Portuguese: gato escaldado de água fria tem medo
- Romanian: cine s-a fript cu ciorbă, suflă și-n iaurt (literally “he who burnt himself [once] with hot soup will [then] blow air [even] on yogurt”)
- Russian: обжёгшись на молоке́, бу́дешь дуть и на во́ду (obžógšisʹ na moloké, búdešʹ dutʹ i na vódu, literally “having been burnt by milk, you'll blow onto water”), пу́ганая воро́на куста́ бои́тся (púganaja voróna kustá boítsja, literally “a frightened crow is afraid even of the bush”)
- Serbo-Croatian: tko se jednom opeče, puše i na hladno
- Spanish: gato escaldado del agua fría huye (es)
- Turkish: sütten ağzı yanan, yoğurdu üfleyerek yer
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