Da’ mara-et nga isra’ sa taong mari’gen somiba’!
English: Translation
To a voracious eater, no fish is bad.
English: Definition
Said of someone who eats so eagerly that they do not find fault with the fish they are given.
Part of Speech
sentence
Semantic Domain
Humans, Social Relations and Organization
Language and Communication
Food, cooking and foodways
Morphology
mari’gen “excessively; intensely” + siba’ (siba’ “eat voraciously,” with -om- infixed)
Notes
Part of Speech
Proverbial expression; sentence
Notes
tao is a spelling variant of tawo “person.” It is distinct from ta’o “give; hand over,” which is written with the bantere’ (glottal-stop mark). Siba’ is an expressive, animal-eating comparison, not a neutral verb for eating; it is also documented in Buhi and other Bikol varieties.
Source – Sense
Romeo Oliveros (born 1946), native Boie’nen speaker, born and raised in Sta. Clara, Buhi; oral contribution on FB-post comment