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Rh 10 Na dumka riga babu wuya, wonda ya yanka wuya shi sa ma kainshi.


 * I have sewn a riga without a neck, let him who cuts a neck for it put it on.


 * The riga is a shirt with a hole at the top for the head to be put through: if made without this wuya or neck, one would have to be cut before the riga could be put on.


 * If the cap fits put it on.

11 Ba don "riga'n domin" ba, da mutum ya mutu masiachi.


 * If it were not for riga'n domin a man (a fellow) would die poor.


 * Riga'n domin, because of some one else, for some one else's sake, through some one else's influence.


 * Na shigga "riga'n domin" wuri'n Abdu.


 * I got it through Abdu.

12 Ba na fassa randa'n daki ba, na waje ba ta shigga ba.


 * I won't break the randa of the house until the one outside (new one) has been brought in.


 * Don't be off with the old love until you are on with the new.


 * This might very well be said to a guide, who asks if he may go when the village to which he is guiding you is reached: meaning, "I can't let you go until I get another guide, for otherwise I may be left without any one at all."


 * Randa, a big water jar about 2 ft. high, which always stands in the "gidda": it is too big to be conveniently carried, and if moved when full would probably break.