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. Ku ya mu nyemba = to go on a journey.
6. Mukua vungendzi = traveller.
7. Vakua vungendzi (plural) = travellers.
8. Mukua mahindi = swift or fast walker or runner.
9. Niania ku mikono = swift or fast legs; swift or fast walk.
10. Mukua ku livanga = the first to come or arrive.
11. Mukua ku kotokela = the last to come or arrive; late comer.
12. Ua livanga = you are early.
13. Ua kotokela = you are late.
14. Ku ya vulungi = to emigrate.
15. Heta = arrive, attain.
16. Ku vuyo = destination.
17. Vuputukilo = the beginning.
18. Vumanusuilo = the end.
19. Londa = mount; board.
20. Hita = pass.
21. Hitangana noku noku = pass to and fro.
22. Hita helu = pass over.
23. Endesa = drive.
24. Endesa lusi = drive fast.
25. Livandeke = slow down.
26. Lusi = speedily; swiftly.
27. Vuasi = swiftly; speedily.
28. Tsukuka = skip over.
29. Mana = stop.
30. Hungama = move out; drive out.
31. Ku tambuoka = bounding.
32. Ntsindo ya ku tsekengeya ca zinkuakua = the noise of the rattling of the wheel.
33. Vuendangane = walk aimlessly.
34. Ku-endangana = wandering.
35. Cendangane = vagabond.
36. Lumbuka = wander from home.
37. Zambangela = to move from one place to another.
38. 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. Nkuakua = route; way; course.
8. Livalo = rim.
9. Mavalo (plural) = rims (Ezekiele 1:18).
10. Mavalo a zinkuakua = rims of the wheels.
11. Citasu ca ntando = number plate.
12. Citasu ca konda ya likalu = number plate.
13. Cendo = vehicle; chariot; caravan.
14. Viendo (plural) = caravans; vehicles; chariots.
15. Cendo ca makalu = convoy of vehicles or wagons; a group of vehicles traveling together (as in a file); caravan.
16. Cendo ca vamala = caravan of men.
17. Cendo ca vimulu = caravan of donkeys.
18. Cendo ca tumelu = caravan of camels.
19. Ntuama ua cendo = leader of caravan; delegation leader.
20. Mukua ku endesa likalu = driver.
21. Vimbalati = a tong-like stick tool used for carrying luggage on the shoulder.
22. Mukua ku endela ha kavalu = horse raider.
23. Litemba = chariot.
24. Matemba (plural) = chariots.
25. Vitumbiko = wagons or carts.
26. Kinga = bicycle; bike.
27. Njinga = bicycle; bike.
28. Viketa = saddle blankets.
29. Seleyi = saddle.
30. 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. Mavava a fulai = wings of the aeroplane.
6. Mukua ku pulula fulai = pilot or a person who flies or is qualified to fly an aircraft or spacecraft.
7. Vakua ku pulula fulai (plural) = pilots.
8. Cana ca fulai = airfield; airport.
9. Ku tenga = soar.
10. Tulumukila = swooping down.
11. 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. Mu-ya-ndonga = a person who travels by river transport.
16. Mukua ku zika vuato = calker.
17. Tsakununa = pluck out.
18. Sununa = launch a canoe/boat.
19. Zavuka = cross.
20. Zavula = ferry across.
21. Zavukisa = cause to cross.
22. Zavuisa = help to cross.
23. Linema = shore.
24. Ku ntunda = ashore.
25. Hungumuka = drift.
26. Mu sinia = other side.
27. Ku sinia = this side.
28. Mukulo = by the side; beside.
29. Havuluka = subside; go down to lower level (water).
30. Tepuluka = subside or recede.
31. Zivilila = sink.
32. Ku zivilila = to sink.
33. Vomba = sink.
34. Ku vomba = to sink.

Luchazi proverb: Mu-ya-ndonga, ka ve ku mu tumbuola; ivene a li mu njila (He who travels by river is not apt to be mentioned; he is on his way).

Vulanguluisi: Hamosi ngendzi a heta kaha na umo uahi na mu zimbula vunoni ikeye ivene a tantekeya vika nendela.

Ku Hetesa: Kuli vimosi vi hasa ku langulula nkala cuma. Cipue ku heta ca ngendzi kuli vimo vi a nendela kaha vize via nendela vi ka soloka.