1. Nyaah beekan anin nyaah duntela tee kilin (my eye on you and i don’t respect you are different). To admire an individual and trying be like him is not equal to disrespecting him.
2. Loo tebanna seloto, loo nyii nin na lebuka futa (there are lots of fire wood in the forest, it is the seekers that don’t reach the logs). This statement is usually made in cultural praise seeking events. A patron is praise with this accolade, loo in Mandingo means something precious, so to get a gift, one has to ask the right people.
3. Daali (make predictions). Ancient Mandingo Kings are told to make predictions on their coronation day.
4. Santo jara falandun (changing the name of an adult). This term means, when a person converts into Islam, if his/her name is contradictory to the teachings of Islam, he/she has to change the old name. So that name change is seen as santo jara fala dun.
5. Taah-jireya (cruel or merciless or an act of torture). Jankay Wally was said to have asked his governors to be harsh with subjects. He used the term tah-jirehya
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