Kmtyw Proverbs from Various Groups-gctid48149

[Akua Ma'at]

Mekyea mo (I greet y'all),

Please use this thread to share the wise words of our honored Ancestors, aka Kmtyw proverbs. Wherever possible share the proverbs in the original language with the english translation. I will try to do the same though we may not always find the proverb in the original language. If only the english translation is known, please share it anyway.... as we continue our Kmtyw development someone will be able to provide the original wise words to make our knowledge complete.

Meda ase!

Akua

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[Akua Ma'at]

Moloi ha a mela boya.
(An evil doer has no distinguishing mark.)

Sesotho proverb

[Akua Ma'at]

Mmecha ede abughi okuko.

Literally:  Preparing cocoyams for planting does not mean that they are already planted.
(Buying a lot of books does not mean that a person is educated.)

Igbo proverb

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[Akua Ma'at]

Nwanyi umu iri o dighi ihe mere nabali o naghi ama.

Literally:  When a woman has ten children, there is nothing that happens in the night that she does not know about.

Igbo proverb

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[Akua Ma'at]

Idan dei a chini ba a seyer ba, kaza ta fi doki.

Meaning - If it is a matter of eating and not of selling, then the hen is better than a horse.

united snakesge or Explaination - Everything has its own peculiar uses.

Haunited snakes proverb

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[Akua Ma'at]

Aboki barawo, barawo ne

Meaning - A friend to a thief is a thief.

united snakesge or Explaination - This is to say, that one can easily guess who you are and what you can do through the kind of friends you keep.

Haunited snakes proverb

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[Akua Ma'at]

Isala kutshelwa sobona ngomopo

Meaning The wrong-headed fool who refuses counsel, will come to grief.

Zulu proverb

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[Akua Ma'at]

Indlela ibuzwa kwabaphambili

Meaning - A way forward is asked from those who are in front. If you don't the solution to a problem or need advice ask those who have been in such situations.

Zulu proverb

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[Akua Ma'at]

A fool and water will go the way they are diverted.

Ethiopian proverb

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[Akua Ma'at]

Turina keessatt killen millaan adeemti.
 
By persevering the egg walks on legs.

Omoro proverb

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[Akua Ma'at]

Uwaingila mu mushintu, tomfwa nswanswa.

One who enters the forest does not listen to the breaking of the twigs in the brush.

Bemba (Zambia) Proverb

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[Akua Ma'at]

Omoonto umwi nkirunguuri, ababere nitoonge rebukima

One person is thin porridge or gruel; two or three people are a lump (handful) of ugali (stiff cooked meal/flour from sorghum or millet).

Kuria (Tanzania and Kenya) Proverb

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[Akua Ma'at]

Umwáansi aguciira icoobo, Imáana ikaguciira icaanzo.

When an enemy digs a grave for you, God gives you an emergency exit

Kirundi (Burundi)

Explanation:

Icaanzo, in Kirundi, is a kind of low and narrow opening made in the fence around the family house or urugo ("kraal"). This icaanzo is most often made in the back courtyard for two main uses: First, as a usual entrance for the women and children when they want to get in unnoticed especially during public functions; second, as a secret emergency exit in case of danger coming from the main and public entrance called iréembo.

Considered in this second use, the icaanzo is a symbol of safety and security in case of danger threatening one's life. That is why it is opposed to the icoobo ("grave"), symbol of a certain death. The proverb insists on the fact that the icoobo ("grave") is made by your enemy umwáansi, while the icaanzo ("emergency exit") by which you escape is made for you by God Imáana.

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[Akua Ma'at]

If you educate a man you educate an individual, but if you educate a woman you educate a family (nation).

Probably a [[Fanti]] ( Ghana )

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[Akua Ma'at]

Getutu kere maiso.
The bush in which you hide has eyes.

Gusii ( Kenya )

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