Meaning
The person who is destined to be beaten will never accept reconciliation in a fight.
Usage or Explaination
It is normally used in reference to destiny. That if something is destined to happen it will surely happen.
Contributed by: Mamud Abdulfatah
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Kifi a ruwa sarki ne
Meaning
A fish is a king in the water.
Usage or Explaination
A man can do what he like in his own house or a man is a master in his own house.
Contributed by: Maimuna Muhammad Giwa
A fish is a king in the water.
Usage or Explaination
A man can do what he like in his own house or a man is a master in his own house.
Contributed by: Maimuna Muhammad Giwa
In za ka haka ramin mugunta, haka shi gajere.
Meaning
Be careful not to be caught in your own trap. (If you dig a pit of evil, dig it short.)
Usage or Explaination
The proverb means that the larger your trap is, the more easily you can get caught in it which is common logic.
Contributed by: Ayomide Fadipe
Be careful not to be caught in your own trap. (If you dig a pit of evil, dig it short.)
Usage or Explaination
The proverb means that the larger your trap is, the more easily you can get caught in it which is common logic.
Contributed by: Ayomide Fadipe
Wanda bai ji bari ba zai ji oho
Meaning
The person who doesn't hear 'stop' will hear 'oho!'
Usage or Explaination
When you don't heed to warning, you'll end up receiving sympathy
Contributed by: Zira John
The person who doesn't hear 'stop' will hear 'oho!'
Usage or Explaination
When you don't heed to warning, you'll end up receiving sympathy
Contributed by: Zira John
Na dumka riga babu wuya, wonda ya yanka wuya shi sa ma kainshi
Meaning
Usage or Explaination
I have sewn a riga without a neck, let him who cuts a neck for it put it on.
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.
If the cap fits put it on.
I have sewn a riga without a neck, let him who cuts a neck for it put it on.
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.
If the cap fits put it on.
a dade a nayi saigaskiya, karya fure take bata yaya.
Meaning
Usage or Explaination
Truth last longer while falsehood doesn't last long
It is used in case of proven how truthful a person is .
Contributed by: Mujittaph Idris Wawo
Source: Learnt right from childhood.
Truth last longer while falsehood doesn't last long
It is used in case of proven how truthful a person is .
Contributed by: Mujittaph Idris Wawo
Source: Learnt right from childhood.
Abincin wani guban wani
Meaning
Usage or Explaination
You don't love someone else's love.
It goes to say that:
One man's meat is another man's poison!
Contributed by:
Hassan Saeed
You don't love someone else's love.
It goes to say that:
One man's meat is another man's poison!
Contributed by:
Hassan Saeed
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.
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