kamũingĩ koyaga ndĩrĩ
Kikuyu edit
Alternative forms edit
- kamũingĩ kooyaga ndĩrĩ[1]
Proverb edit
- many hands make light work[2][4] (lit. a group of people lifts a mortar)
Synonyms edit
- kĩara kĩmwe gĩtiũragaga ndaa
- rũtungu rũmwe rũtiraragia mwaki
- rwambo rũmwe rũtiambaga ndarwa
- thegere igĩrĩ itiremagwo nĩ mwatũ
- ũũgĩ wa mũndũ ũmwe ndũrĩmaga
References edit
- ^ Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and Ngũgĩ wa Mĩriĩ (2009). I Will Marry When I Want(wp), p. 122. Nairobi and Kampala and Dar es Salaam: East African Educational Publishers. →ISBN
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Barra, G. (1960). 1,000 Kikuyu proverbs: with translations and English equivalents, p. 31. London: Macmillan.
- ^ “kamũingĩ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 188. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- ^ Stevenson, Marion S. (1927). "Specimens of Kikuyu Proverbs," p. 241. In Festschrift Meinhof: sprachwissenschaftliche und andere Studien, pp. 241–246. Hamburg: Kommissionverlag von L. Friederichsen & Co.