Ẹni à ńbá rìn là ńfìwà jọ.
Character and other people
Original
Ẹni à ńbá rìn là ńfìwà jọ.
Glose littérale
- Ẹni à ńbá rìn the-one we walk with là ńfìwà jọ is-whom we resemble in-character.
Anglais idiomatique
"It is the person whose company one keeps that one emulates."
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Ce que cela signifie
People take their character from those they move with.
Employé quand
Owomoyela: "One should match one's comportment to one's company"
Notes sur la traduction
Bá rìn, to walk with, is the ordinary Yorùbá expression for keeping company, and the proverb is literal about the mechanism: character is transmitted by proximity and repetition, not by instruction. Compare entry 26, which states the same process as damage.