Vocabulary for Smoking and drinking in Luchazi

Vocabulary for smoking and drinking

Here is a useful vocabulary list related to smoking and drinking in Luchazi language and their meanings in English:

Smoking vocabulary in Luchazi

Makania = tobacco; cigarettes.

Liamba = marijuana; cannabis.

Ku kele makania = to harvest tobacco leaves.

Ku hela makania = to harvest tobacco leaves.

Sipa = smoke.

Ku sipa = to smoke.

Mutompa = smoking gourd.

Musaka = tobacco holder.

Livueka = smoking pipe; a device used to smoke tobacco, often made of wood or clay.

Mukua ku sipa = smoker.

Macesi = matches.

Fofo = matches.

Suameka = light or ignite.

Vueka = kindle or cast fire.

Huzila = puff.

Tuhia = fire.

Muisi = smoke.

Mulengi = flame.

Linungu = piece of charcoal.

Muto = ashes.

Zintsasi = sparks.

Tintuoka = leap out.

Kupenda makania= being intoxicated by tobacco, marijuana, or cannabis.

Smoking gourd in Luchazi

Drinking vocabulary in Luchazi

The Luchazi have traditional non-alcoholic and alcoholic drinks which are made from grains and tubers. They are brewed by women and are used as refreshments for various occasions. Here is a list of common terms related to beverages in Luchazi language and their meanings in English:

1. Via-ku-nua = drinks; beverages.
2. Mpuila = thirst.
3. Kutsa mpuila = to feel thirst.
4. Nua or kunua = drink or to drink.
5. Huvila = gulp or suck up.
6. Visangua = non-alcoholic drinks are mainly made from cooked meal porridge (prepared by adding small amount of pounded soaked and about to germinate maize).
7. Milava = non-alcoholic drinks are mainly made from cooked meal porridge (prepared by adding washed, peeled shreds of milava roots).
8. Kacipembe is a traditional liquor distilled from fermented cooked cassava mash.
9. Vimbuende is the fermented cooked cassava mash (fermented for about five days) used to distil liquor.
10. Kaliangu is a removable cover or lid for covering the top of the large distillation pot.
11. Cingolengole or lingolengole is a condenser consisting of a metal pipe (which one of the ends is connected to the kaliangu) and a hollow vessel (containing the cooling water).
12. Muyengo = metal pipe.
13. Kacipembe ka zintsole is a type of distilled beverage made from fermented wild fruits called zintsole, and the liquor has distinctive flavouring of zintsole.
14. Ndoka is an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting honey mixed with water and brewed in a calabash or njava (clay jar).
15. Vualua vua masangu: this is an alcoholic beverage made from yeast-fermented millet flour.
16. Cimbaluila = yeast.
17. Mpapi = hydromel.
18. Mizi ya nkamba = roots of nkamba for brewing beer.
19. Mizi ya milava = roots for brewing non-alcoholic beverage made from meal flour.
20. Mizi ya muvulia = roots of muvulia used in brewing ndoka.
21. Cikele = drunkard or a person who habitually drinks to excess.
22. Kupenda = being intoxicated by alcohol or other intoxicating substance.