Basic foods in Luchazi and other related words

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1. Muongua = salt.
2. Tuzi tua cindele = sugar.
3. Mukele = soda.
4. Cimbaluila = yeast.
5. Mavele or mavisi = milk.
6. Keju = cheese.
7. Manteka = thick coagulated milk or curd.
8. Vuci = honey.
9. Musati = sugarcane.
10. Cisati = stalk.
11. Mundele = maize.
12. Musambe = sweet potatoes.
13. Muandza = cassava.
14. Vunga = meal flour.
15. Ntsitu = meat.
16. Vantsi = fish.
17. Mayaki = eggs.
18. Vuihua = mushrooms.
19. Zindzilo = eggplants.
20. Mutete = roselle.
21. Pepinusi or Vipepinusi = cucumber or cucumbers.
22. Melau or Vimelau = melon or melons.
23. Polu or Vipolu = leek or leeks.
24. Sapola or Visapola = onion or onions.
25. Tulumingo = garlic.
26. Kulumba = to give (especially food) more flavour by adding seasoning or savoury ingredients e.g herbs, spices etc.
27. Mihako = fruits.
28. Ngandza = cup.
29. Nguto = spoon.
30. Lilonga = plate.
31. Njava = jar.
32. Ciseya = basin.
33. Civela = pan.
34. Ntsazi = glass bottle or flask.
35. Ngalafua = leather or plastic bottle or container.
36. Uatsahakulia = glutton.
37. Hokama or kuhokama = thin or to be thin.
38. Hindala or kuhindala = fat or to put on weight.
38.  Viakulia = food.
39.  Civundu = a very thick meal porridge.
40.  Nkama = a fist-size lump of civundu cut from a larger portion.
41.  Mbolo = bread.
42.  Vivalavala = pieces or slices.
43.  Vifo = relish.
44.  Musozi = soup.
45.  Malendzi = saliva.
46.  Tanta = dip in the soup before eating.
47.  Mbuitika = dip into a liquid.
48.  Zaveka = soak.
49.  Asama = open the mouth.
50.  Lia or kulia = eat or to eat.
51.  Kutonguenia = eat food with scarceness.
52.  Takinia = chew.
53.  Suma = bite.
54.  Mina = swallow.
55.  Zekula = spit.
56.  Nua or kunua = drink or imbibe.
57.  Tovala or kutovala = tasty or pleasant flavour or a sense of enjoyment.
58.  Samuka or kusamuka = tasteless.
59. Lembuluka or kulembuluka = sweet or having the pleasant taste of sugar or honey.
60.  Viliana = poisonous.
61.  Ndzala = hunger.
62.  Cizava = famish or extreme hunger.
63.  Mpuila = thirsty.
64.  Teleka = cook.
65.  Hika = cooking by stirring especially meal porridge.
66.  Oca = roast.
67.  Coto = a space where domestic fire is lit for cooking or heating.
68.  Coto ca Zindoho = stove.
69. Coto ca kuocela = oven.
70.  Lutengo = furnace.

Notes on Nouns

There is a playful or coquettish way of using the nouns. If the noun ends in -a this is changed to -e, as vunge, for vunga (flour), the voice slightly raised on the final syllable. If the noun ends in -i, -o or -u, then -e is added. But if the noun already ends in -e, then -i is placed before the -e. Examples:
  • Civundue (civundu)
  • Cipokie (cipoke)
Some nouns are only used in singular, as mundele, muandza, vuihua, musambe. They have a collective meaning. Other nouns have no singular: mema, mavisi, mazi. If a plural of these be desired, it may be formed by prefixing vi-, as vimema.
A blogger, lover of life and creative thinker: a KaLuchazi ka zindungu; born from his mother with the lightning bolt. Went to school of life with the alligator & learnt the lessons of the crocodile. He takes every chance to document traditions, customs, culture of the Luchazi people. His great grandfather, Muyemba from the Nama clan came in with thunder and got out with thunder. And his great grandmother, Mpulu from the Chungu clan was conceived in the clouds with thunder.

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