Forest and vegetation vocabulary in Luchazi

Forest and vegetation vocabulary refers to words and phrases used to describe various aspects of forests, plants, and ecosystems. Here are some Luchazi words and phrases and their meanings in English:

Common vegetation terms in Luchazi

1. Cihongo = meadow or water meadow.
2. Cindzembua = shrub.
3. Vindzembua (plural) = shrubs.
4. Ciputa = bushy.
5. Viputa (plural) = bushes.
6. Cisoni = stubble or straw.
7. Visoni (plural) = straw, stubbles.
8. Visoni vi tontola = fresh or green straw.
9. Visoni via ku uma = dry straw.
10. Cisuasua = stubble or straw.
11. Visuasua (plural) = straw, stubbles.
12. Lihumbu = a dense group of bushes or trees.
13. Lihumbu lia miti = dense group of trees; a forest of trees.
14. Mahumbu (plural)
15. Likongele = rush (of plant); a tufted marsh or waterside plant.
16. Linkanda = lily.
17. Mankanda (plural) = lilies.
18. Mankanda-nkanda (plural/emphasis) = lilies.
19. Muila = grass.
20. Muila u tontola = fresh or green grass.
21. Muila ua ku uma = dry grass.
22. Muila ua katengo = elephant grass.
23. Muila ua kangungu = thatching grass.
24. Muila ua ku kamba = mown grass.
25. Mungengua (sharp cutting grass).
26. Vunonge = thick grass or thicket of grass.
27. Lihongo = reed.
28. Mahongo (plural) = reeds.
29. Likove = rush; bulrush. 
30. Makove (plural) = rushes; bulrushes.
31. Mukele
32. Mulele = mallows.
33. Mungu = nettles.
34. Kalyau 
35. Vutalamba
36. Muti ya ku musenge = trees of the forest.
37. Musenge = bush, forest.
38. Ntsuata = forest.
39. Ntsuata ya musenge = woodland. Forest.
40. Tumuni = brier; a prickly plant or a thorny twig.
41. Tundzata = brambles.
42. Saku = cockle.
43. Vuili = juniper.
44. Vusito = thicket, grove, or growth of small trees.
45. Vusaki = a thicket in which wild animals can hide.
46. Cana ca musenge = plain.
47. Cana = an open field.

"Handekela cana, musenge ua zika." ~ Luchazi wisdom.

Types of native trees in Luchazi 

Here is a list of common tree names in Luchazi:

1. Milemba trees.
2. Mukuzu = fig tree.
3. Munkenge tree.
4. Muntelenge tree.
5. Musivi tree.
6. Mutsindi tree.
7. Mutovo tree.
8. Muvulia or civulia tree.
9. Mundzongolo tree.
10. Mutundua tree.
11. Mukula tree.
12. Muniumbe tree.
13. Musamba tree.
14. Mukese tree.
15. Muveva tree.
16. Musese tree.
17. Musalia tree.
18. Munca tree.
19. Mukuve tree.
20. Mutunga tree.
21. Muntsole tree.

To be continued...

Luchazi proverb: Civulia ca linda mukuenu; nove tangua ci ka ku linda (The "civulia" tree has wound itself around your friend and one day it will wind itself around you too).

Vulanguluisi: "Civulia" ce ku linda miti ikuavo kaha mua ya ntsimbu i hasa ku tsiha muti uze. Hamosi vitanga vize vi na ka uana kavusamba kove vi ka hasa ku ka ku uana ove litangua limo.

Ku Hetesa: Lembezieka kavusamba kove mu vitanga vieni muomu tangua lieka ikeye a ka ku lembezieka mu vitanga viove.

Parts of a tree in Luchazi

A tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, supporting branches, leaves, and other structures. Here are parts of a tree in Luchazi language and their meanings in English:

1. Muti = tree.
2. Miti (plural) = trees.
3. Citi = stick.
4. Viti (plural) = sticks.
5. Vusuka = boughs or main branches of the tree.
6. Mutango = branch.
7. Mitango (plural).
8. Mitango ya ku zambuoka = shadowing shroud.
9. Mutombo = branch shoot; waterspout; sucker.
10. Mitombo (plural) = branch shoots; waterspouts.
11. Citetele = twig.
12. Vitetele (plural) = twigs.
13. Muzi = root.
14. Mizi (plural) = roots.
15. Lifo = leaf.
16. Mefo (plural) = leaves.
17. Ntemo = bud.
18. Zintemo (plural) = buds.
19. Ntsani = flower or blossom.
20. Zintsani = flowers or a blossom; a mass of flowers on a tree or bush.
21. Mungonga = thorn.
22. Mingonga = thorns.
23. Mbimbo = long thorn.
24. Zimbimbo (plural) = long thorns.
25. Muti u tontola = fresh or green tree.
26. Muti ua ku uma = dry tree.

Luchazi proverb: Muti ua zimbimbo; ndumba ua nji londesa-uo (A lion has made me climb the thorn tree).

Vulanguluisi: Ka kuesi muntu a li na cizango ca ku londa muti ua zimbimbo vunoni nga ndumba a li na ku mu kavangeya nkala muntu a ku hasa ku londa muti ua zimbimbo mu ku liohiela kuli uze ndumba.

Ku Hetesa: Viuma via muono uetu vi tu kokela vitanga kaha vi tu sindiya mu ku panga vize vintsa ka tua lavelele.

Features of a tree in Luchazi language 

Parts of a tree trunk and related words in Luchazi

A tree trunk is the main stem of the tree that supports the branches. Here are parts of a tree trunk in Lucazi and their meanings in English:

1. Cimbundi = stump.
2. Cula = tree bark. It is the tough outermost layer of a tree’s trunk that protects the tree from damage.
3. Ntsengua = heartwood; it is the dead, central part of the xylem that does not conducts or transport water up the tree.
4. Zintsengua (plural) = heartwood or poles.
5. Mpako = tree hollow or tree hole or tree cavity.
6. Kupakula = to cut down big trees.
7. Kuvuka = to remove barks from big trees.
8. Kuhima = thick or thickness.

Part of a tree trunk in Luchazi language 

Luchazi proverb: Mbala ntsengua; cilombo muisi (The chief's village, a heartwood pole; the camp, smoke).

Vulanguluisi: Limbo lia muangana li li na citungu ca zintsengua mu ku liniunga ku vusonde. Kaha hembo hali vusamba hamo na kuandama ca muono ua ndzolela.

Ku Hetesa: U hasa ku hangula ha kati ka vize vi ka tumama ng ku tokaho cipue u hasa ku hangula vize via kantsimbu kaha ka vi tokoho.