Ada asap ada api.
Translation: There is smoke there is fire.
- Indonesian proverbs
English equivalent: Where there is smoke, there is fire.
Meaning: "There is no effect without some cause. or It is supposed that if there is a rumour, there must be some truth behind it."
Source for meaning of English equivalent: Paczolay, Gyula (1997). "1". European proverbs: in 55 languages, with equivalents in Arabic, Persian, Sanskrit, Chinese and Japanese. Veszprémi Nyomda. p. 33. ISBN 1-875943-44-7.
Atmosumarto (2004). A Learner's Comprehensive Dictionary of Indonesian. Atma Stanton. p. 26.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Indonesian_proverbs
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