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These are the Luganda Proverbs and their English meaning<\/p>\n
1.\tZ’abaana : ng’ekuliyo owuwo – Oh, these are boy-fights (says a man) who has one of his own boys among them
\n2.\tZaali embikke : kati nsagazi – ( Ezaali embikke: ) Once those bananaries were well kept (covered with migogo) : now they, are high-grass
\n3.\tZansanze : y’afiira mu ddya; nga Siibisobole yeekuunidde – The woman who says: misery has befallen me, will (stay and) die in her married state (endurance); if she says: I cannot bear it, she leaves (her hus-band)
\n4.\tZikeeta : azisigula – The endaggu-tubers (kind of yam) cause rising up in the throat : (one who says so), uproots them all the same (and eats them)
\n5.\tZikulabira w’otoove – Real trouble comes upon you, where you cannot escape
\n6.\tZikulaga emirirnu : abajja miyini (or: atunda omugavu) – Necessity teaches you to work (says the or man and) he makes hoe-handles (or: he sells the mugavu-tree)
\n7.\tZikulemye : ezaalema Ntambi e Lubya – You have failed : as Ntambi failed at Lubya
\n8.\tZikusanze (= nga tutabye) : tatta wa ggwanga – (One who says in a conciliatory mood) You have seen trouble : does not kill his enemy
\n9.\tZikusooka : ne zitakuva nnymna – (ennaku) ( Ennaku zigwana muto: ) (It is better that) trials come to you in the beginning (and you find ace after-wards) : than that they come to you at the end
\n10.\tZimba ennene : tagikubeera (= takubeerako, = takuyamba) – (One who tells you) Build a big house : does not helyou to build it
\n11.\tZimba obukeedo : tagikubeera – ( Zimba ennene: ) (The man who tells you) Build a house with bukeedo : does not help you to build it
\n12.\tZinaabala : teziranda kugenda wala (= teziranda ggobe) – ( Ezinaabala: ) Beans destined to bear fruit : do not run far (or: do not run into leaves)
\n13.\tZinaakalira mu kkubo : teyekkaanya agafumbye bw’afaanana – (ngalo) (A man who says: my wet hands) will get dry on the road (having washed them after the meal and leaving quickly) : does not look at the host who has cooked the food for him
\n14.\tZiraba-muzaale – sery (ennaku) is the lot of the one who is born
\n15.\tZiriddira ku mabidde : yeerabira enkenku – (The money snt in buying beer-bananas) will come in again in selling beer : (one calculating like that) forgets (ssible) bad beer (which won’t sell)
\n16.\tZirindaba olwange : tawa musibe mmere – ( Ndiraba ezange: ) I shall meet trouble myself one day (says the miser) : and refuses to give food to the prisoner
\n17.\tZitemwa kumu : ne zaawukanya emibala – The drums may be cut from the same tree : but their sounds are different
\n18.\tZ’olaga omulungi : tezirwa kukya – The days you announce to a good man (friend) (that you will visit him) : come soon
\n19.\tZ’olaga ow’ebbanja : tezirwa – The days you fix for a debtor (to pay back the debt) : will come soon (for him)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Engero Ezivunudwa – Translated to English Luganda Proverbs -Z Luganda Proverbs – English Translation (English Meaning ) These are the Luganda Proverbs and their English meaning 1. Z’abaana : ng’ekuliyo owuwo – Oh, these are boy-fights (says a man) who has one of his own boys among them 2. Zaali embikke : kati nsagazi – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engero-ezivunudwa-translated-luganda-proverbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aznimi.com\/luganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aznimi.com\/luganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aznimi.com\/luganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aznimi.com\/luganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aznimi.com\/luganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aznimi.com\/luganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aznimi.com\/luganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aznimi.com\/luganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aznimi.com\/luganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}