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!s buí le bocht an beagán

  • 01-07-2020 6:55pm
    #1
    Mrsmum
    Registered Users Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭


    I was looking for an Irish translation for 'beggars can't be choosers' and came across that it might be 'is buí le bocht an beagán'. Could anyone advise if this is correct and if so, how does that translation make any sense. Tia.


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  • #2
    emanresu
    Registered Users Posts: 373 ✭✭emanresu


    I would say it means something like "Poor is thankful for a little" so it is not really a translation, but a similar phrase. But that is always the way with proverbs; you don't literally translate the words to another language, you use a proverb from that language with the same general meaning.


  • #3
    emanresu
    Registered Users Posts: 373 ✭✭emanresu


    buí = thankful (also = colour yellow)
    bocht = poor
    beagán = a little


  • #4
    Mrsmum
    Registered Users Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭Mrsmum


    emanresu wrote: »
    buí = thankful (also = colour yellow)
    bocht = poor
    beagán = a little

    Thanks emanresu. I was stuck on buí meaning yellow so couldn't make head nor tail of it. Tks.
    Now I see the sense of buí coming from buíochas.


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