Geographical features: Luchazi to English

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Geographical features: Luchazi to English

Geographical features encompass both the natural physical characteristics of the Earth and man-made landmarks. Below is a comprehensive guide to land and water features in Luchazi with their English equivalents. 

Land features: Luchazi to English

  1. Mavu = Earth or land.
  2. Likango – desert.
  3. Makango (plural) – deserts.
  4. Cisokola – wasteland.
  5. Muncinda = mountain.
  6. Mincinda (plural) = mountains.
  7. Mincinda ya ha ntalela – mountain-tops.
  8. Lilundu = high ground or place; hill.
  9. Malundu (plural) = high grounds or places; hills.
  10. Milundu ya ha ntalela = hilltops.
  11. Mukinia = hill.
  12. Mikinia (plural) = hills.
  13. Cimbongo = valley.
  14. Nkangala = vale or valley.
  15. Cingelengenia = rock face; crag; cliff; escarpment.
  16. Vingelengenia (plural) = rock faces; crags; cliffs; escarpments.
  17. Ha kati ka vingelengenia = a ravine.
  18. Livue = stone or rock.
  19. Mavue = stones or rocks.
  20. Cana = plain.
  21. Zinkundu = Islands.
  22. Nkundu (singular) = Island.
  23. Zindinda = wilderness.
  24. Zindinda zia mupulungua = desolate wilderness.
  25. Ndzindza = boundary mark.

Water features: Luchazi to English

  1. Ndonga = river.
  2. Vandonga (plural) = rivers.
  3. Kana ka ndonga = a tributary.
  4. Vana vandonga (plural) = tributaries.
  5. Mukonga = stream.
  6. Mikonga (plural) = streams or canals.
  7. Mukonga ua vana vandonga = stream of the tributaries.
  8. Kapila = smaller stream; creek; little river.
  9. Tupila (plural) = smaller streams or tributaries; creeks; little rivers.
  10. Muava = ford; river-crossing 
  11. Miava (plural) = fords; a shallow place in a river or stream that can be crossed by foot or vehicle.
  12. Ndundzi = fountain.
  13. Zindundzi (plural) = fountains.
  14. Livueluvuelu = spring.
  15. Vipupa via mema = waterfalls.
  16. Vindzavitita via mema = pools of water.
  17. Linema = bay; a broad curved inlet of the sea or other body of water.
  18. Mema a kalunga = sea.
  19. Cikuma ca kalunga = seashore.
  20. Cisali = pool or lake.
  21. Kacisali ka mutunguila
  22. Nkunjo = watercourse.
  23. Cisandzi = swamp; fens.
  24. Vutope = mire or a boggy ground or marshy area.
  25. Livombo = mire; wet spongy mud.

Soil types: Luchazi to English

  1. Livu = soil.
  2. Vuma = clay.
  3. Mbunda = reddish-brown lateritic soil.
  4. Nkungu = red ochre; a native red coloured soil or earth with hydrated iron oxide.
  5. Museke = sand.
  6. Musekeseke = sandy.
  7. Vuntsengelenienie = gravel stones
  8. Mpumputa = dust.
To be continued... Feel free to contribute and make corrections in the comment box. Thank you.
A blogger and creative thinker from the Nama clan of the Luchazi people; born from his mother with the lightning bolt. Went to school of life with the alligator and learnt the lessons of the crocodile. He is passionate about his culture and 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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