Travel and transport vocabulary in Luchazi

Here is a list of vocabulary for travel and transport in Luchazi language and their meanings in English:

General travel terms in Luchazi

1. Enda = walk.
2. Endesi = manner of walking or driving.
3. Vuendesi = manner of walking or driving.
4. Vungendzi = journey.
5. Mukua vungendzi = traveller.
6. Vakua vungendzi (plural) = travellers.
7. Mukua mahindi = swift or fast walker or runner.
8. Niania ku mikono = swift or fast legs; swift or fast walk.
9. Mukua ku livanga = the first to come or arrive.
10. Mukua ku kotokela = the last to come or arrive; late comer.
11. Ua livanga = you are early.
12. Ua kotokela = you are late.
13. Ku ya vulungi = to emigrate.
14. Heta = arrive, attain.
15. Ku vuyo = destination.
16. Vuputukilo = the beginning.
17. Vumanusuilo = the end.
18. Londa = mount; board.
19. Hita = pass.
20. Hitangana noku noku = pass to and fro.
21. Hita helu = pass over.
22. Endesa = drive.
23. Endesa lusi = drive fast.
24. Livandeke = slow down.
25. Lusi = speedily; swiftly.
26. Vuasi = swiftly; speedily.
27. Tsukuka = skip over.
28. Ku tambuoka = bounding.
29. Ntsindo ya ku tsekengeya ca zinkuakua = the noise of the rattling of the wheel.
30. Vuendangane = walk aimlessly.
31. Ku-endangana = wandering.
32. Cendangane = vagabond.
33. Lumbuka = wander from home.
34. Zambangela = to move from one place to another.
35. Muhela ha ku huimina = a resting place.

Luchazi proverb: Ku ya vulungi, ku livanga, kazendze ua livangele lusiho (When you emigrate, start early; the cricket began early in the dry season).

Vulanguluisi: Nga u ya vulungi u na pande ku livanga linga u kale na ntsimbu ya ku tunga ndzivo hamo na ku viukisa mehia. Kazendze ue ku livanga mukemo u na pande ku mu tambuluisa mu vipanga viove.

Ku Hetesa: Kati u kale na vulenda cipue malanga nga u li na ku singanieka vutumbe vua kama.

Ground transportation in Luchazi

1. Likalu = car; vehicle; cart.
2. Makalu (plural) = cars or vehicles or carts.
3. Mota = vehicle (used by Luchazi people in Zambia).
4. Motoka = vehicle (mainly used by Luchazi people in Zambia)
5. Nkuakua = wheel.
6. Zinkuakua = wheels.
7. Livalo = rim.
8. Mavalo (plural) = rims (Ezekiele 1:18).
9. Mavalo a zinkuakua = rims of the wheels.
10. Citasu ca ntando = number plate.
11. Citasu ca konda ya likalu = number plate.
12. Cendo = vehicle; chariot; caravan.
13. Viendo (plural) = caravans; vehicles; chariots.
14. Cendo ca makalu = convoy of vehicles or wagons; a group of vehicles traveling together (as in a file); caravan.
15. Cendo ca vamala = caravan of men.
16. Cendo ca vimulu = caravan of donkeys.
17. Cendo ca tumelu = caravan of camels.
18. Ntuama ua cendo = leader of caravan; delegation leader.
19. Mukua ku endesa likalu = driver.
20. Vimbalati = a tong-like stick tool used for carrying luggage on the shoulder.
21. Mukua ku endela ha kavalu = horse raider.
22. Litemba = chariot.
23. Matemba (plural) = chariots.
24. Vitumbiko = wagons or carts.
25. Kinga = bicycle; bike.
26. Njinga = bicycle; bike.
27. Viketa = saddle blankets.
28. Seleyi = saddle.
29. Tuta = transport; move things from one place to another.

Air transport and related words in Luchazi

1. Fulai = aeroplane or aircraft or spacecraft.
2. Pululuka = fly away.
3. Pulula = fly.
4. Ku pulula = to fly.
5. Mukua ku pulula fulai = pilot or a person who flies or is qualified to fly an aircraft or spacecraft.
6. Vakua ku pulula fulai (plural) = pilots.
7. Cana ca fulai = airfield; airport.
8. Ku tenga = soar.
9. Tulumukila = swooping down.
10. Ku tula = to land.

Water transport and related words in Luchazi

1. Vuato = boat, watercraft or canoe (a light narrow boat with both ends sharp that is usually propelled by paddling).
2. Mato (plural) = boats or canoes.
3. Liato = big boat, watercraft, or ship.
4. Cikasi = oar or a long pole with a flat broad blade at one end used for propelling or rowing a boat through the water.
5. Vikasi (plural) = oars; long poles with flat blades used to row or steer a boat through the water.
6. Cilapo = paddle or a usually wooden implement that has a long handle and a broad flattened blade and that is used to propel and steer a small craft (as a canoe)
7. Mbanku = thwart of the boat or canoe; a bench or crosspiece seat for a rower in a boat or canoe.
8. Zimbanku (plural) = thwarts of the boats or canoes.
9. Ku kasa = to row or to propel a boat by means of oars, an act of rowing.
10. Mukua ku kasa vuato = rower or mariner.
11. Vakua ku kasa mato (plural) = rowers or mariners.
12. Ku sunga = to steer a boat, canoe, watercraft, or a ship.
13. Mukua ku sunga vuato = sailor or pilot; a helmsman or one employed to steer a ship; a person who is qualified and usually licensed to conduct a ship into and out of a port or in specified waters.
14. Vakua ku sunga mato (plural) = sailors or pilots.
15. Mukua ku zika vuato = calker.
16. Tsakununa = pluck out.
17. Sununa = launch a canoe/boat.
18. Zavuka = cross.
19. Zavula = ferry across.
20. Zavukisa = cause to cross.
21. Zavuisa = help to cross.
22. Linema = shore.
23. Ku ntunda = ashore.
24. Hungumuka = drift.
25. Mu sinia = other side.
26. Ku sinia = this side.
27. Mukulo = by the side; beside.
28. Havuluka = subside; go down to lower level (water).
29. Tepuluka = subside or recede.
30. Zivilila = sink.
31. Ku zivilila = to sink.
32. Vomba = sink.
33. Ku vomba = to sink.