Proverb: Nayɔŋɔ bane na zaŋ, o wo di tio.
Translation: If a leper gets angry, s/he can climb a tree.

Proverb: Orin ní ńṣíwájú ọ̀tẹ̀.
Translation: Singing heralds/comes before plotting.

Proverb: Ẹni tí kò le è ṣe bí ẹlẹ́dẹ̀ l’ọ́nà Ìjẹ̀bú, kò leè ṣe bí Adégbọrọ̀ l’ọ́jà Ọba.
Translation: He who cannot work like farmstead pigs on the path to Ijebu, cannot flourish like Adegboro at the King’s marketsquare.

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.

Proverb: Kwot ogwal ok mon dhiang’modho.
Translation: The swelling of the frog does not stop the cow from drinking.

Proverb: Chien kiyany.
Translation: The past is not insulted.

Proverb: Awendo ok we yiege.
Translation: The guinea fowl does not leave its feathers.

Proverb: Nyathi otenga kicham alot.
Translation: The child of a hawk does not eat vegetables.

Proverb: Nyiero machien loyo mokuongo.
Translation: The last laughter is better than the first one.

Proverb: Osiepni en jasiki.
Translation: Your friend is your enemy.

Proverb: Jakisuma ok or e dero.
Translation: A beggar is never sent to the granary.

Proverb: Jachan nyombo gi wang’e.
Translation: The poor marries with his eyes.

Proverb: Wang’e tek kadhako malur.
Translation: He/she is as rude as a barren woman.

Proverb: Wuod ogogo japinj moro.
Translation: A bastard son is a foreigner.

Proverb: Nyako ogwang’ thurgi bor.
Translation: A girl is a wildcat whose home is distant.

Proverb: Jadhako achiel nyawang’e otho.
Translation: A man with one wife has a bad eye.

Proverb: Nyathi mioro ema chiethne duong’.
Translation: It is the child who accepts errands that has big excreta.

Proverb: Kik ipakri ne kiny kawuono.
Translation: Do not praise yourself about tomorrow today.

Proverb: Gweno jadich gi ombich nyawadgi.
Translation: The hen busies itself with the intestines of the other.

Proverb: Kik ipakri gi mwandu owadu.
Translation: Do not praise yourself with your brother’s wealth.

Proverb: Kik iyany nyang’ ka pod in ei pi.
Translation: Do not insult the crocodile when you are still in the water.

Proverb: Nyathi moyieng’ nyalowang’o dero.
Translation: A satisfied child can burn down the granary.

Proverb: Ondiek ok nyier nono.
Translation: The hyena does not laugh in vain.