Proverb: Anyi ba’ayi ba! An raka bako ya daawo.
Translation: It is done and yet not done, a visitor that has been accompanied has come back.

Proverb: To gamunan barewa taji kukan zaki.
Translation: Here we are, the gazelle has heard the hyena.

Proverb: Ko goma ta zube, tafi biyar albarka.
Translation: Even if ten will fall, it’s better than five.

Proverb: A deyi mugani, in tusa zata hura wuta.
Translation: Make it happen, if the air from farting can make fire.

Proverb: Nasan za’arini, an sace zanin mahaukaciya.
Translation: I know, it is going to be dyed, the stolen wrapper of a madwoman.

Proverb: Rashin sani makaho ya taka sarki.
Translation: It is because the blind man didn’t know that was why he stepped on the emir.

Proverb: Abin Duniya menene! Kaza ta jawo muzuru kwanan gia.
Translation: Wonders shall never end! A hen befriending a cat.

Proverb: Baka da tacewa barawo a hannun mata.
Translation: You have nothing to say, a thief caught by women.

Proverb: Abin daga Allah yake! Matar bagizimi ta haifi babole.
Translation: It is from Allah, the wife of bagizimi giving birth to babole.

Proverb: Abin Allah, budurwa da jika.
Translation: It is from Allah, a maiden with a grandchild.

Proverb: Da jinni a tsoka, saidai rashin tsagawa.
Translation: There is blood in meat, only if you don’t cut it.

Proverb: Banza girman kashi ba tsoka.
Translation: Nonsense, shit is no meat.

Proverb: Tashinku tashi na inji mai jiran gawa.
Translation: “If you go, I am gone” said the undertaker.

Proverb: An fado daga kan dabino, an zarce rijiya.
Translation: It has fallen from the date tree and fallen into the well.

Proverb: Abu namu, dan kura da kallabin tumbi.
Translation: It is ours, says the baby hyena with intestine scarf.

Proverb: An yanka ta tashi.
Translation: It has been slaughtered but it got up.

Proverb: Akwana a tashi, watarana sai labara.
Translation: Day in day out, all shall be history.

Proverb: Kowa yasha kida, kudinsa ya biya.
Translation: Anyone who enjoys music, paid for it.

Proverb: Dan farauta bari murna, karen ka ya kama kura.
Translation: Do not be happy, the hunter that your dog has a caught a hyena.

Proverb: Kukan kurciya jawabi ne, mai hankali ke ganewa.
Translation: The cooing of a dove is a message, only the wise one understands.

Proverb: Abin da kamar wuya, gurguwa da auren nesa.
Translation: It is going to be difficult, a lame woman being married off far from home.

Proverb: Kanku akeji, mahaukaci ya fada rijiya, yace wanka na keyi.
Translation: "None of my business/not a problem to me", said the lunatic who has fallen into a well, "I am having my bath."

Proverb: Duk xaya, makafi sunyi dare.
Translation: It’s all the same, blind men coming back late in the night.

Proverb: Daga haka muka fara, kuturu yaga mai kyasfi.
Translation: We started like that; the leper has seen a person with eczema.

Proverb: Abin daga Allah ne, maqwabcinka ya biyawa matarka Makka.
Translation: It’s from Allah; your neighbor has paid for your wife to go to Mecca for pilgrimage.

Proverb: Na san za’a rina, an saci zanin mahaukaciya.
Translation: I know, it is going to be dyed, the stolen wrapper of a madwoman.

Proverb: Gani ga wane, ya ishi wane tsoron Allah.
Translation: Learning from other people’s mistake is enough to make you wiser.

Proverb: Muje zuwa, mahaukaci ya hau kura.
Translation: Let’s keep going, a mad man on a hyena.

Proverb: Abu mai sauki, chire wando ta ka.
Translation: It is very easy, just like removing the trousers through the head.

Proverb: Kai dai ayi shi’ani, na birni ya cuci na kauye.
Translation: It is business as usual; the town urchin has taken advantage of the villager.

Proverb: Ana kukan targade sai ga karaya.
Translation: Just when we are complaining of a dislocation, then suddenly a fracture was detected.

Proverb: Alhamdulillah, ko a bakin kura ne.
Translation: Always thank Allah even if the hyena is about to eat you.

Proverb: Wahala, noma ba taki.
Translation: It is very tasking, farming without fertilizer.

Proverb: Hannunka baya rubewa kayanke kayar.
Translation: You cannot cut off your rotten hands.

Proverb: Ba’a bari akwashe duka.
Translation: What you spill, you cannot gather all.

Proverb: Jarrabar duniya, bature da gwado.
Translation: Wonders shall never end, a white man wearing a loincloth.

Proverb: A rashin kira karen kurma ya bata.
Translation: It is for lack of calling that the dumb man’s dog got lost.

Proverb: Badani ba, sata a lahira akawo duniya.
Translation: I am not going to get involved, to steal from the hereafter and bring it to the world.

Proverb: Abinda ka shuka shi zaka girba, abinda kayi shi za’ayi maka.
Translation: What you sow is what you reap.

Proverb: Bamu iya ba, ance da tsofaffi suyi rawa.
Translation: We do not know how to go about it, said the old men when told to dance.