Ẹni tó bá ìwà búburú wá sáyé, tòun tokùn àjàrà ní ńlọ sọ́run.
Character against beauty, wealth and destiny
Ìpilẹ̀
Ẹni tó bá ìwà búburú wá sáyé, tòun tokùn àjàrà ní ńlọ sọ́run.
Ìtumọ̀ ọ̀rọ̀-sí-ọ̀rọ̀
- Ẹni tó bá ìwà búburú wá sáyé one-who with bad character comes to-the-world, tòun tokùn àjàrà he-together-with a-vine-rope ní ńlọ sọ́run is-how he-goes to-heaven.
Ìtumọ̀ Gẹ̀ẹ́sì
"Whoever comes into this world accompanied by bad character goes back to heaven by means of a vine."
Orísun náà kò dárúkọ ẹni tí ó túmọ̀ rẹ̀.
Ohun tí ó túmọ̀ sí
Bad character brings its owner to a bad end.
Ìgbà tí a ń lò ó
Owomoyela: "Bad character will be the undoing of its owner"
Àkíyèsí lórí ìtumọ̀
The vine is a hanging. The proverb states a violent death with complete indirection, naming only the material, which is characteristic of Yorùbá proverbs about death.