Meaning
If it is a matter of eating and not of selling, then the hen is better than a horse.
Usage or Explaination
Everything has its own peculiar uses.
Babu nesa ga Allah
Meaning
There is no such thing as distance where God is concerned.
Contributed by:
Uwe Seibert
There is no such thing as distance where God is concerned.
Contributed by:
Uwe Seibert
A buggi karfe da saura'n zafi, in ya fuche sai a wahalla
Meaning
Strike while the iron is hot, you will suffer if you allow it to get cold
Usage or Explaination
Do not lose an opportunity when it is ripe. Taking right decisions at the right time is crucial else you lose the chance which you may not regain.
Strike while the iron is hot, you will suffer if you allow it to get cold
Usage or Explaination
Do not lose an opportunity when it is ripe. Taking right decisions at the right time is crucial else you lose the chance which you may not regain.
In rana ta fito tafin hannu ba ya kare ta.
Meaning
If the sun rises, the palm cannot block its rays.
Usage or Explaination
When problems arise the only solution is to face them because it cant be stopped.
Contributed by
Mubarak Jibril.
If the sun rises, the palm cannot block its rays.
Usage or Explaination
When problems arise the only solution is to face them because it cant be stopped.
Contributed by
Mubarak Jibril.
Ba na fassa randa'n daki ba, na waje ba ta shigga ba.
Meaning
I won't break the randa of the house until the one outside (new one) has been brought in.
Usage or Explaination
Don't be off with the old love until you are on with the new.
This might very well be said to a guide, who asks if he may go when the village to which he is guiding you is reached : meaning, "I can't let you go until I get another guide, for otherwise I may be left without any one at all,"
Randa is a big water jar about 2 ft. high, which always stands in the " gidda " : it is too big to be conveniently carried, and if moved when full would probably break.
I won't break the randa of the house until the one outside (new one) has been brought in.
Usage or Explaination
Don't be off with the old love until you are on with the new.
This might very well be said to a guide, who asks if he may go when the village to which he is guiding you is reached : meaning, "I can't let you go until I get another guide, for otherwise I may be left without any one at all,"
Randa is a big water jar about 2 ft. high, which always stands in the " gidda " : it is too big to be conveniently carried, and if moved when full would probably break.
Ba don " riga'n domin " ba, da mutum ya mutu masiachi.
Meaning
If it were not for riga'n domin a man (a fellow) would die poor.
Usage or Explaination
Riga'n domin: because of some one else, for some one else's sake, through some one else's influence.
We die poor only if we dont have an influence of someone in our lives.
If it were not for riga'n domin a man (a fellow) would die poor.
Usage or Explaination
Riga'n domin: because of some one else, for some one else's sake, through some one else's influence.
We die poor only if we dont have an influence of someone in our lives.
Na dinka riga babu wuya, wanda ya yanka wuyan shi sa ma kan sa.
Meaning
I have sown a dress (eg Baban riga) without a neck, let him who cuts a neck for it put it on.
Usage or Explaination
The riga is a shirt with a hole at the top for the head to be put through : if made without this wuya or neck, one would have to be cut before the riga could be put on.
Its similar to saying, who the cap fits let him or her wear it.
I have sown a dress (eg Baban riga) without a neck, let him who cuts a neck for it put it on.
Usage or Explaination
The riga is a shirt with a hole at the top for the head to be put through : if made without this wuya or neck, one would have to be cut before the riga could be put on.
Its similar to saying, who the cap fits let him or her wear it.
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