Travel and transport vocabulary in Luchazi

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. Ku ya vulungi = to emigrate.
  8. Heta = arrive, attain.
  9. Ku vuyo = destination.
  10. Vuputukilo = the beginning.
  11. Vumanusuilo = the end.
  12. Londa = mount; board.
  13. Hita = pass.
  14. Hitangana noku noku = pass to and fro.
  15. Hita helu = pass over.
  16. Endesa = drive.
  17. Endesa lusi = drive fast.
  18. Livandeke = slow down.
  19. Lusi = speedily; swiftly.
  20. Vuasi = swiftly; speedily.
  21. Ku tambuoka = bounding.
  22. Ntsindo ya ku tsekengeya ca zinkuakua = the noise of the rattling of the wheel.
  23. Vuendangane = walk aimlessly.
  24. Ku-endangana = wandering.
  25. Cendangane = vagabond.
  26. Lumbuka = wander from home.
  27. Zambangela = to move from one place to another.
  28. Muhela ha ku huimina = a resting place.

Ground transportation in Luchazi

  1. Likalu = car; vehicle; cart.
  2. Makalu (plural) = cars or vehicles or carts.
  3. Nkuakua = wheel.
  4. Zinkuakua = wheels.
  5. Livalo = rim.
  6. Mavalo (plural) = rims.
  7. Mavalo a zinkuakua = rims of the wheels.
  8. Cendo = vehicle; chariot; caravan.
  9. Ntuama ua cendo = leader of caravan.
  10. Vimbalati = a tong-like stick tool used for carrying luggage on the shoulder.
  11. Litemba = chariot.
  12. Matemba (plural) = chariots.
  13. Vitumbiko = wagons or carts.
  14. Kinga = bicycle; bike.
  15. Njinga = bicycle; bike.
  16. Viketa = saddle blankets.
  17. Seleyi = saddle.

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. 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.

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