a no babariman e broko pranasi

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Sranan Tongo[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Literally, “it's not the noisy ones who destroy the plantations”. Refers to escaped enslaved people who stealthily returned to wreck plantations and free other enslaved people.

Proverb[edit]

a no babariman e broko pranasi

  1. barking dogs seldom bite
    • 1856, Heinrich Wullschlägel, Deutsch-negerenglisches Wörterbuch. Nebst einem Anhang, negerenglische Sprüchwörter enthaltend [German-Negro English dictionary. Containing, in addition to an appendix, Negro English proverbs]‎[1], Löbau: J.U. Duroldt, page 304:
      A no Babariman de broko pranasi. Nicht die Schreier zerstören die Plantagen. (Geht auf die ehemaligen Buschneger-Einfälle[sic]). Hunde, die beißen wollen, bellen nicht zuvor. - Hunde, die bellen, beißen nicht.
      A no Babariman de broko pranasi. It's not the screamers that are destroying the plantations. (Goes [back] to the former Bush Negro incursions). Dogs that want to bite don't bark first. - Dogs that bark do not bite.
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