Vocabulary for life, health, and death in Luchazi

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Vocabulary for life, health, and death in Luchazi

Here is a categorized vocabulary list related to life, health, and death in Luchazi language and their meanings in English:

Life terms and phrases in Luchazi language

  1. Ku semuua = birth - the beginning of life.
  2. Kolo = grow (of a living thing) or undergo natural development by increasing in size and changing physically.
  3. Ku kolo = to grow; growth – the physical or mental development.
  4. Himpuka= change; alter; modify; become something else.
  5. Litula = survival – continuing to live, especially in difficult conditions.
  6. Kapolua = purpose or goal.
  7. Ku likanuuela = to plan; to have a purpose; to have a purpose – the reason for living.
  8. Ku likanuuela mu mutima = to plan or prepare in the heart.
  9. Muono = life.
  10. Miono (plural) = lives.
  11. Yoya = live; survival.
  12. ku yoya mu vutupuke = to live in luxury.
  13. Vutupuke = luxury; dainty; delight.
  14. Mutoni = alive; (of a person, animal, or plant) living, not dead; existence – the state of being alive; having life.
  15. Muntu mutoni = alive; a living person.
  16. Kutona = be awake.
  17. Vulahe vua muono = lifespan.
  18. Citeli or citele = burden.
  19. Viteli or vitele (plural) = burdens.
  20. Lutsilielo = trust.
  21. Lulavelelo = hope.
  22. Citanga = problem; challenge.
  23. Vitanga (plural) = problems; challenges.

Health terms in Luchazi language

  1. Cihindu = well-being; good health.
  2. Vukangule = soundness of the body; well-being; good health.
  3. Ua hinduka = are you well. Wellness.
  4. Ku vavala = to be in pain.
  5. Ku vavala = to be sick; fall sick; unwell.
  6. Na vavala = he or she is unwell.
  7. Ku vindzuoka = to groan in pain; stress.
  8. Kuzeya = weakness; to be weak.
  9. Tutumuisa = take a break or relief.

Medical terms and related traditional terms in Luchazi

  1. Citantekeyeso ca vuvezi = symptom.
  2. Cimueso ca vuvezi = signs or symptom.
  3. Saka = treatment.
  4. Vukanguisi = healing.
  5. Ku kanguka = recovery
  6. Ku saka = treat or administer medication.
  7. kanguka = healed or heal.
  8. Holesa = heal.
  9. Cipatela = hospital or clinic.
  10. Cipango = the isolation shelter for someone undergoing traditional treatment or purification rituals.
  11. Ku katala = exhausted.
  12. Vihemba = medicine.
  13. Kuntsuka = administration of the herbal mixture through the anus onto large intestine using a small specially made gourd; this is widely used to treat rectum problems.
  14. Kutaha = divination.
  15. Cimbanda = traditional physician; herbalist. 
  16. Vimbanda (plural) = traditional physicians; herbalists.
  17. Ndotolo = doctor.
  18. Vandotolo (plural) = doctors.
  19. Mukua ku saka = the healer.
  20. Mukua ku kanguisa = the healer.
  21. Muyoyesi 

Illness and conditions in Luchazi language

  1. Vuvezi = illness or sickness.
  2. Mavezi (plural) = illnesses; sicknesses.
  3. Musongo = disease.
  4. Misongo (plural) = diseases.
  5. Musongo ua kulitambuisa = contagious or infectious epidemic disease or pestilence.
  6. Lundunda = headache.
  7. Masikasika = fever.
  8. Kakoho = cough.
  9. Lisinda = flu.
  10. Lezumuka = faint.
  11. Ku lezumuka = to faint.
  12. Ku puputiya = blindness.
  13. Ku hambuka = diarrhoea; dysentery.
  14. Mbandu = wound or sore.
  15. Kutua = to inflict.
  16. Kutua mbandu = to inflict a wound.
  17. Zimbandu zia ha milivu = sore throats.
  18. Ku zimba = to be swollen.
  19. Lihote = boil.
  20. Mahote (plural) = boils.
  21. Tusina = pus.
  22. Mbumba = leprosy.
  23. Zintiti = swollen legs and arms.
  24. Lifulu = foam.
  25. Mikiki = bruises.
  26. Ku-ntsinia = epileptic fit or convulsions or epilepsy.
  27. Kalepa = palsy.
  28. Mukua Kalepa = a paralytic.
  29. Songonona = sprain.
  30. Songoniona = sprain constantly.
  31. Tsehula = sneeze.
  32. Ku tsehula = to sneeze; the act of sneezing.
  33. Hemba = blow one's nose; blow the nose.
  34. ku hemba = to blow one's nose; the action of blowing the nose.
  35. Kuzua = itchy.
  36. Kusandza = vomit.
  37. Visandzo = the disgorged content of the stomach.
  38. Ndzandzavula = unconscious.
  39. Vindzandi = scurvy or eczema or scabs.
  40. Musongo ua muzimo = disease of the bowels.
  41. Ku vulumuna = to harm; Injury

Death terms in Luchazi language

  1. Ku-tsa = to die; death.
  2. Ku-tsa ceni ci li ku hiehi = his death is near.
  3. Vutsi = Mortality; death; extinction.
  4. Ku nonga = pass away; perish; destruction.
  5. Vusiua = grief; sorrow.
  6. Via-ku-tsa = funeral.
  7. Vutsindo = burial.
  8. Vusuana = Inheritance.
  9. Mutsi = dead person; deceased.
  10. Vatsi (plural) = dead people.
  11. Vimbembesi via vatsi = spirits of the dead.
  12. Civimbi = corpse.
  13. Vivimbi (plural) = corpses.
  14. Cikasa = coffin, casket or box.
  15. Vuhango = bier; frame on which a corpse or coffin is placed before burial.
  16. Vakua ku ambata vuhango = pallbearers.
  17. Mumbo = tomb; grave.
  18. Cihilo = grave; a hole dug in the ground to receive a coffin or corpse.
  19. Vihilo (plural) = graves.
  20. Vukalo vua vatsi = place of the dead; sheol.
  21. Ku tsinda = to bury; put to rest.
  22. Tsinda = bury; put to rest.
  23. Ku tsisa = to be bereaved; bereavement.
  24. Na tsisa = be bereaved. Example: na tsisa yalieni = she has lost her husband/ has been bereaved of her husband.
  25. Mbumbo = sepulchre; grave mounds.
  26. Zimbumbo = sepulchres
  27. Muhela ua vutsindo = a grave site; a burial site; cemetery.
  28. Mbozo
A blogger, lover of life and creative thinker; born from his mother with the lightning bolt. Went to school of life with the alligator and learnt the lessons of the crocodile. He takes every chance to document traditions, customs, culture of the Luchazi people. His great grandfather, Muyemba from the Nama clan came in with thunder and got out with thunder. And his great grandmother, Mpulu from the Chungu clan was conceived in the clouds with thunder.

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