Ìwà lòrìṣà; bí a ti hù ú sí ní ńgbeni sí.
Character as the ground of a person
Original
Ìwà lòrìṣà; bí a ti hù ú sí ní ńgbeni sí.
Glosa literal
- Ìwà character lòrìṣà is-an-òrìṣà; bí a ti hù ú sí as we cultivate it ní ńgbeni sí is-how it-supports-one.
Inglês idiomático
"Character is a god; just as one lives it, so it succors one."
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O que significa
Character functions the way a deity does: it is served, and it responds to the quality of service.
Usado quando
Owomoyela: "One's fortune depends on one's character"
Notas sobre a tradução
Hù is the verb used of a plant putting out growth, so hù ìwà is to grow character rather than to have it. The proverb makes an unusually strong claim by Yorùbá standards, placing character in the category of òrìṣà, and it is one of the texts most often cited in the scholarly argument that Yorùbá ethics is not simply derived from religious command. The next entry makes the same move with ẹ̀sìn, worship.