ọbẹ̀ tó dùn
proverb
owó ló pa á (canonical)
Definitions
- nothing good happens without money
- delicious soups are procured with money
Words in other languages from this one
These are words in other languages that came from this Yorùbá word, mostly through trade, the Atlantic slave trade, and contact with neighbouring languages.
They are not translations. A word here means what it means in its own language, which may have drifted a long way from the Yorùbá it started as.
soup wey swit, na money kill amNigerian Pidgin
Source: Wiktionary,
where this word is spelled “ọbẹ to dun, owo lo pa a”.
Reference:
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