African Proverbs in Pidgin

[GiftedMAN]

The boat that sail on the sea or an ocean doesn't know it doesn't have an end.
Meaning; No matter how your are suffering or hustling know that one day your maker (God) will answer your prayers. So don't give up keep pushing to get to your destination.

Haba baba abeg make una try dey calm down with dis big big grammar Dem nah, here now we African proverb we no need to blow big big english so dat our elders go hear and follow us chuck mouth. Make we try dey use pidgin even as the corner na African Proverbs in Pidgin so that every bodi go flow 2geda.

No carry dis talk for mind because my people talk say no be only papa and mama wey born pikin dey train am because pikin na every bodi own once Dem give birth to ram.

[Silver005]

It's good for us to talk in our forefathers dialect,to prove to us that we are really born and brought up by the lineage of our ancestors.

Provable is the Igbos language,,,,

No matter how hard the jungle is,a Lion can never eat grass,,it means that no matter how bad leadership or the whole world turns into we must try to survive...
An old woman says if the hill learns to break her waist she will learnt to walk and take rest,it means that when the journey of life begins stressful we learn to apply wisdom to it..

[Mpamaegbu]

1. Na fly wey no dey hear word dey follow dead body enter for grave oh.
Meaning: When a fly fails to hear words it follow the corpes to the grave

2. Pikin wey don say him mama no go sleep for night make eh also ready for night vigil.
Meaning: When a baby fails to sleep at night both mummy and child stays awke till dawn.

Nor vex sey I single your post out to point out certain things. Na the desire to set things right make me dey do am. Those ur explanations na just transliteration of the proverbs wey you throw there. Nor be the real meaning. You fit ask any elderly person around you.

The first wan mean – reaping the consequences of one's stubbornness or recalcitrance.

The second wan mean – talks about retributive justice or karma. Whatever we wish unto others is what we should expect in return.

3. Pu--y dey sweet oh, but signature campaign sweet pass
Meaning: Women is sweet but money is sweeter.

Sorry, dis wan nor be African proverb at all. Na you arrange am by yourself.

*Abeg make una take note*

Abeg I don talk about dis thing before. I nor wan report anybody post to mod for deletion. For those of us wey dey write their proverbs for English, e nor too jell here. Make una dey write am for pidgin but make una put the explanation for English. E nor too hard na. Na beg I dey beg una. Una know sey I nor too go school and so I go like make matta nor cast here.

Make we try dey use pidgin even as the corner na African Proverbs in Pidgin so that every bodi go flow 2geda.

God bless you for dat talk. I don even post my comment on dis kain talk before I com see dis ur own. I suppose pour you colele water but my fridge dry up now.

[SmartGold01]

Egg 🥚 wey them cook no dey be the same with the one them fry because fried egg must need oil other ingredients to sweeten am.

Meaning: Good characters can never be compared with bad, a bad characters carries all manner of bad luck and hatred. Hence good characters are rear to find.

[Gozie51]

E get our provide wey say “Until the lions have their own historians, histories of the hunt will glorify the hunter.”

Meaning : E no easy ehh..... smiles. Anyway I believe say this proverb just sum up fair hearing. Hear both sides before you commit yourself. Una know say when hunter comot from bush, na so him mouth go dey sharp say him do animal this and that but the true picture of wetin him eye see nko, you no go hear am because you no dey there with am. Make we dey wise.

[Kelward]

Monkey get skill be say tree near tree.

Meaning: you're making progress because you're surrounded by the resources and what it takes to make progress.


Your fowl don de born Turkey.

Meaning: your little resources is yielding plenty gains.


OP abeg no vex, na only dis two na im  I go fit to drop for this naija proverbs thread. Members don talk almost the whole proverbs wey I know.

[Mpamaegbu]

Una know say when hunter comot from bush, na so him mouth go dey sharp say him do animal this and that but the true picture of wetin him eye see nko

Dis na true. Proud people like to boast of things wey dem do and even add the wans wey dem nor do especially wen dem know sey nobody dey there to contradict dem.

OP abeg no vex, na only dis two na im  I go fit to drop for this naija proverbs thread.

Even those two wey you throw enta na ogbenge talk dem be. Dem be real grassroots yarn. You deserve my colele wata but na as e dry for my fridge na im make we nor pour you any.

[GiftedMAN]

Even as we don enter anoda chapter for we country naija I wam yarn una one ogbobge proverb wey my grand mama yarn me before she kick bucket I feet say e go help us wey be elders for here.

Proverb: Na person wey like you go tell you say your mouth dey smell.

Meaning: It takes love to correct a bad child. Imo don't see correction as insult because he who corrects you wants the best for you.

Proverb: Na person wey first start to dey use pot cook go first get old pot.

Meaning: You can not be wiser than someone who taught you what you know when you are new to the system. You can not be older than your senior.

I fit no give you the meaning wey enter your body but you fit still add your own meaning(s) make we learn together.

[Majestic-milf]

Even as we don enter anoda chapter for we country naija I wam yarn una one ogbobge proverb wey my grand mama yarn me before she kick bucket I feet say e go help us wey be elders for here.

Proverb: Na person wey like you go tell you say your mouth dey smell.

Meaning: It takes love to correct a bad child. Imo don't see correction as insult because he who corrects you wants the best for you.

Proverb: Na person wey first start to dey use pot cook go first get old pot.

Meaning: You can not be wiser than someone who taught you what you know when you are new to the system. You can not be older than your senior.

I fit no give you the meaning wey enter your body but you fit still add your own meaning(s) make we learn together.

@GiftedMan, you nack beta proverbs for dia, Esp the first one. Life dey easy wen we dey surrounded by pipo wey fit de honest with us, not to laff wit us for front, but wound us for back.

 

[GiftedMAN]

Even as we don enter anoda chapter for we country naija I wam yarn una one ogbobge proverb wey my grand mama yarn me before she kick bucket I feet say e go help us wey be elders for here.

Proverb: Na person wey like you go tell you say your mouth dey smell.

Meaning: It takes love to correct a bad child. Imo don't see correction as insult because he who corrects you wants the best for you.

Proverb: Na person wey first start to dey use pot cook go first get old pot.

Meaning: You can not be wiser than someone who taught you what you know when you are new to the system. You can not be older than your senior.

I fit no give you the meaning wey enter your body but you fit still add your own meaning(s) make we learn together.

@GiftedMan, you nack beta proverbs for dia, Esp the first one. Life dey easy wen we dey surrounded by pipo wey fit de honest with us, not to laff wit us for front, but wound us for back.

 

You do well my broda Majestic as you take make my head swell and my body sweet me well well you try well well. Your word remind me wetin our elders talk wey be say if you praise person wey pound yam well you dey give am more strength to pound weller weller next time. I no go slack I go dey drop more beta proverb because na my grand mama train me.

[Mpamaegbu]

Proverb: Na person wey like you go tell you say your mouth dey smell.

Thank you for dat proverb. Dis days sef, na to hand d persin tomtom or menthol. No too much talk sef again. I hope sey people wey dey back seat for hall dey hear am, ba or make I increase d amplifier for una?

On a serious note, a lot of people this day nor dey like correction no matter how subtle or soft you deliver am to dem. Everybody dey form "I've arrived, you can't talk to me that way." E worse pass for dis social media space.

[Liliana1304]

I dey troway salute to all the senior men Dem for dis side. And special salute to d person wey reason to open dis place. As naija babe wey I be, E sweet me to see place wey my fellow naija pipo dey dey hit beta proverbs. E jus be like say we carry a little of home come dis side. Dis na beta tin bcos proverbs jus be like salt, without am, flavor no go dey. Make I drop dis one wey my mama dey use nack me

Proverb: Wisdom be like underwear; e gud to get, but no gud to show off
  Dis one dey easy to understand but I go appreciate more meaning to am.

[Mpamaegbu]

The Nza bird talk sey if nor be because of d heart disease wey him dey get, him and cock na mate.
Meaning: If not for inhibitions and life challenges some of us face, we would've achieved more than we already have done.

[Majestic-milf]

You no fit know how soup sweet reach with one morsel of gari

Meaning: Don't place your judgement based on first meeting because you may get it wrong.

[Mate2237]

You no fit know how soup sweet reach with one morsel of gari

Meaning: Don't place your judgement based on first meeting because you may get it wrong.

Garri matter nai u dey tok for here? Ur proverbs e no go work for di Garri and soup. Tai!!? Di meaning e dey okay but di idiom e no go work. If I use one Garri morsel take test soup I go confam sae whether di soup go sweet or not, me I go know wella. If pepper dey sef I go know, and anything wey pass I go know unless my mouth e no good to know if not one ball or morsel of Garri is enough to know bad and good soup oo

[GiftedMAN]

You no fit know how soup sweet reach with one morsel of gari

Meaning: Don't place your judgement based on first meeting because you may get it wrong.

Baba I no go lie you I go fit use the aroma of the soup self know how e sweet reach without using eba run am. My people say dem no dey Carry mirror look Wetin dey hand so I believe say any how e be with one blow of eba we fit know if soup sweet or not.

For the meaning wey you drop, no forget the grammar wey oyibo people talk say first impression matters alot because e get wetin you fit do when person see you for the first time baba dat tin don make dem no go ever gbadu you again.

[Mpamaegbu]

Our people sey wen dey carry persin corpse wey we nor know, e dey be like sey na log of wood dem carry.
Meaning: We feel less concerned when things happen to others that don't directly or remotely affect our peace of mind or happiness.

[GiftedMAN]

Our people sey wen dey carry persin corpse wey we nor know, e dey be like sey na log of wood dem carry.
Meaning: We feel less concerned when things happen to others that don't directly or remotely affect our peace of mind or happiness.

DIS one na real thing wey dey happen for we everyday life, na person wey get matter dey know how e dey pain am but every other person dey see am as nothing even when dem wam help self e dey be dem like say na one kind difficult something dem dey help the person do. Na em make our people dey talk say I don't care na person wey e never happen for before. Chief abeg no dey run leave us here for long oooo I don miss you.

[Adbitco]

Persin mama dey turn to winch if una no progress for house.
Meaning: Whenever you are too lazy to make money you finds whom to apportioned blamed on while your mates are making it in life,
and doing things you should be able to do more than them.


E don tey I show face here oo abeg make una vex the industry too large.

[Youngkhngdiddy]

I have been meaning to do this for a while now but each time I get distracted and laggard. I want us to have an avenue of sharing some of our indigenous proverbs while still learning the crypto stuff.

— E don tey wey I be dey plan to do this thing here but each time too much distractions dey carry my mind comot from am. I go like make our area people share some of our local proverbs here with their explanations. I go put the proverbs in bold.

Share a proverb, and then put up its meaning. It will be best if the proverb is written in pidgin English.

Make I kick start am with some Warri flavour. Area!

Nor be today wey yansh don dey back.
Meaning: We are used to such a situation.

Dem nor dey tell blind man sey salt nor dey soup, you fit tell am sey oil nor dey.
Meaning: Obvious things don't need explanations.

 Op you really try we'll well and this topic sweet me for body because eh dey remind me of back in the days  when my sisters dey get discussion then my younger brother go one engage them and eh go come lead to arguments then my grandmother go begin they advice am and na proverbs she dey always use calm am down, some of them dey funny but I go drop a few wey I remember.
Na only mumu they use two legs test whether river deep
 Eh mean say make people no dey rush into conclusion.
if them tell ears something eh no hear when they cut head comot eh go follow I'm go
Eh mean say make you listen to advise
 And eh also get one my mama dey always talk for igbo when I do something bad, runaway from house then come back to beg, lol eh dey funny
Agbachaa Oso, Aguo Mile
 Eh mean say when a man run race finish eh go come sit down reflect on the distance eh cover.