Proverbes en mooré

This application offers you 912 proverbs in mooré

This application offers 912 proverbs in Mooré (many are also translated into French). These proverbs are listed in alphabetical order.

A proverb is a short statement expressing a popular council, a truth of common sense or experience, and which has become commonplace.

Proverbs occupy a special place in the traditional education system. They invite the audience to beware of appearances and to scrutinize the hidden side of things.

The Mossi (in Burkina Faso) express their concept of life through stories and proverbs. It is thanks to this wisdom that the ancestors managed to educate their children. With proverbs we enter deeply into the soul of the people, we seize on the spot his impressions, his ideas, his feelings, his rules of life. Proverbs crystallize, so to speak, the wisdom of a people. These are lessons of experience of centenarians, applied to the various circumstances of practical life, lessons of common sense, words of old men.