Weather conditions vocabulary in Luchazi

Weather conditions vocabulary in Luchazi language

Weather conditions refer to day-to-day state of atmosphere prevailing in an area as regards heat, wind, rain, cloudiness etc. Here are some words and phrases used to describe weather conditions in Lucazi and their meanings in English:

1. Cau = dry; free or relatively free from a liquid or moisture and especially water.
2. Cilanga = drought; a period of prolonged dryness specifically one that causes extensive damage to crop or prevents their successful growth. Example: muaka ua cilanga (year of drought).
3. Cilela = dry spell; a period of little or no rain; a prolonged period of dry weather.
4. Cinkumba = sudden violent windstorm; cloudburst; tempest.
5. Cisika = cold season.
6. Cuku = vapour; a substance diffused or suspended in the air and impairing its transparency; a substance in the gaseous state as distinguished from the liquid or solid state.
7. Liselua = cloud; a visible mass of condensed watery vapour floating in the atmosphere, typically high above the general level of the ground.
8. Livazi = flood; the inundation of land that is normally dry through the overflowing of a body of water.
9. Luhundzi = wind; a natural movement of air of any velocity especially the earth's air or the gas surrounding a planet in natural motion horizontally.
10. Luhundzi lua ntuima = scorching wind or hot wind.
11. Lusiho = winter.
12. Luindza = rainy weather; rainy or wet season; (of weather, or a period) having or characterized by considerable rainfall.
13. Luhundzi lua ku huhua = Stormy winds.
14. Maselua (plural) = clouds.
15. Mancimpa = waves; ridges of water curling into an arched form and breaking on the shore.
16. Masika = chilly; uncomfortably or unpleasantly cold; causing or feeling cool or moderately cold.
17. Melu = sky.
18. Muzilua = torrential rain; heavy downpour of rain that accumulates at a rate of three tenths of an inch or more per hour.
19. Mizilua (plural) = torrential rains; rains falling rapidly and in copious quantities.
20. Mema = water; the liquid that forms streams, lakes, seas, and descends from the clouds as rain and is a major constituent of all living matter and that when pure is an odourless, tasteless, very slightly compressible liquid oxide of hydrogen H2O which appears bluish in thick layers, freezes at 0° C and boils at 100° C, has a maximum density at 4° C and a high specific heat, is feebly ionized to hydrogen and hydroxyl ions, and is a poor conductor of electricity and a good solvent.
21. Mema a civue = pellets of frozen rain falling into showers from cumulonimbus clouds; hailstorm; small pieces of ice that fall during a storm.
22. Mema a ku popomoka = torrential downpour; a heavy fall of rain; flooding rain.
23. Mema a ku noka = rainfall.
24. Mambake = drops; the quantity of fluid that falls in one spherical mass; the small round or pear-shaped portion of liquid; a single measurement of rain.
25. Mambake a mema = small raindrops or droplets.
26. Mbakela = cause to fall in drops or droplets; to apply liquid in small amounts or drops. Mema a mbakela ha muila ua uvotsi.
27. Mbundu = mist; fog; foggy; a cloud of tiny water droplets suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth's surface that limits visibility; thick water vapour that blocks one's vision.
28. Mema a ku konda = snow or ice; precipitation in the form of small white ice crystals formed directly from the water vapour of the air at a temperature of less than 32°F (0°C).
29. Mema a lihungulantsoke = spring rain
30. Mema a mauala = showers of rain.
31. Mema a musanda = autumn rain.
32. Muhiato = lightning; electrical discharge and flash between a cloud and the ground.
33. Mihiato (plural) = lightnings.
34. Mintsamintsa = rays; light cast by rays; each of the lines in which light seems to stream from the sun or any luminous object or pass through a small opening.
35. Mume = dew; tiny drops of water that form on cool surfaces at night, when atmospheric vapour condenses.
36. Mukambuila ua lilu = firmament of heaven or the arc of the sky.
37. Mutana = sun; the luminous celestial body around which the earth and other planets revolve, from which they receive heat and light, which is composed mainly of hydrogen and helium, and which has a mean distance from earth of about 93,000,000 miles (150,000,000 kilometres), a linear diameter of 864,000 miles (1,390,000 kilometres), and a mass 332,000 times greater than earth.
38. Mutana = sunny; sunshine; the heat or light radiated from the sun.
39. Mutana u na tu = common expression for describing a very hot day.
40. Muta = current; a body of water moving continuously in a certain direction marked by force or strength.
41. Kalunga = rain; water falling in drops condensed from vapor in the atmosphere.
42. Kakundukundu = whirlwind; a small rotating windstorm of limited extent that is often accompanied by a column of dust.
43. Keke = cool or cold; temperature in between warm and cold; moderately cold.
44. Ku noka ntsendeka = to rain slantingly.
45. Kua tontola = it is cold; common expression used to describe a cold day.
46. Ku tontola = to be cold.
47. Ku tontola keke = ice-cold.
48. Ku-zima ca kalunga = thunder; thunderstorm; a loud noise after lightning, caused by rapid expansion of air superheated by the lightning.
49. Ku popomoka ca mema = torrential downpour.
50. Ku tuima = to be warm.
51. Huaniania = clear; clear blue sky.
52. Ndzualala = clear; when the sky is blue because no clouds are blocking the sun.
53. Neve = snow.
54. Nkongolo = rainbow; a band of colours found in the sky after a rainfall.
55. Noka = rain.
56. Ku noka = to rain.
57. Nokoua = soaked by rain or leaking of rainwater through a covering or roof.
58. Ku nokoua = to be soaked by rain or leaking of rainwater through a covering or roof.
59. Ntuima = heat.
60. Ntuima ya litangua = heat of the day.
61. Ntuima ya kama = heatwave.
62. Pekumuka = windblown or moved by wind.
63. Savakana = lukewarm.
64. Vusikisiki = light rains, drizzle; to rain in very small drops or very lightly.
65. Yukuma = warm or hot.