aibu

/ a'ibu /

Noun

Plural: aibu Word Group: I-Zi

shame, embarrassment

Synonym:

janaa

Proverbs

Aibu ya maiti aijuaye mwosha

(The shame of a corpse is known by its cleaner)

The ugly inner details of an event or person are available only to those who dig deeper. This has two direct use cases. One is encouraging people to dig deep into matters that appear okay on the surface. Another use case would be to show how important it is to trust an expert's say in a matter that regular people are blind to.

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