Abibitumi Yorùbá Language Resources
Abibitumi Yorùbá Language Resources
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Okunini Ọbádélé Kambon posted an update in the group
Abibitumi Yorùbá Language Resources 4 years ago
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Abibisika (Black Gold) Points
Ọmọ ẹkùn lajạ́ ń pa.
It is the young of a leopard that a dog kills.
(It is only while one is still vulnerable that one’s enemies can get the better of one.) -
Kala Kambon posted an update in the group
Abibitumi Yorùbá Language Resources 4 years ago ·
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Abibisika (Black Gold) Points
A kì í fárí lẹ́yìn olórí.
You cannot shave a man’s head in his absence.
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Abibisika (Black Gold) Points
Abínúẹni kò sẹ́ ọ̀ràn deni.
He who wants no good for one does not plead one’s innocence in one’s absence.
(Expect no kindness from an enemy.)
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Kala Kambon posted an update in the group
Abibitumi Yorùbá Language Resources 4 years ago ·
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Abibisika (Black Gold) Points
A kì í dàgbà sí ohun tí a kò bá mọ̀.
One does not get too old for what one does not know.
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Abibisika (Black Gold) Points
Wọ́n ní kárúgbó gba ọmọ pọ̀n, ó ní ṣe bí wọ́n mọ̀ pé òun ò léhín; wọ́n ní kó pa ọmọ
jẹ ni?
The old woman is asked to carry a child on her back, and she says but they know she has no teeth; was she asked to eat the child? (Said of people whose comment on a proposition is wildly irrelevant.)
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Kala Kambon posted an update in the group
Abibitumi Yorùbá Language Resources 4 years ago ·
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Abibisika (Black Gold) Points
A ju ara wa lọ, t’ìjàkadi kọ́.
Some are superior to others, it is not a matter of wrestling.
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Abibisika (Black Gold) Points
Ààrẹ àgòrò tó bá gbójú, tòun tolúwa rẹ̀ lẹgbẹ́ra.
A subordinate military officer who is audacious is the equal of his superior. (Audaciousness will get one one’s way.)
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Kala Kambon posted an update in the group
Abibitumi Yorùbá Language Resources 4 years ago ·
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Abibisika (Black Gold) Points
Bí a bá ní ká di’jú kí ẹni búburú kọjá, a kò ní mọ ìgbà tí ẹni rere yóò kọjá.
If one decides to close his eyes for the bad person to pass, one will not know when a good person will pass by.
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Abibisika (Black Gold) Points
Bí a bá rí èké, à ṣebí èèyàn rere ni; à sọ̀rọ̀ ságbọ̀n a jò.
When one sees a devious person, one mistakes him for a good person; one talks into a basket and it leaks. (It is easy to mistake a bad person for a good one and to place trust in that person.)
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