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:

Ku semuua = birth - the beginning of life.
Kolo = grow (of a living thing) or undergo natural development by increasing in size and changing physically.
Ku kolo = to grow; Growth – the physical or mental development.
Litula = survival – continuing to live, especially in difficult conditions.
Kapolua = purpose or goal.
Ku likanuuela = to plan; to have a purpose; to have a purpose – the reason for living.
Ku likanuuela mu mutima = to plan or prepare in the heart.
Muono = life.
Miono (plural) = lives.
Yoya = live; survival.
Mutoni = alive; (of a person, animal, or plant) living, not dead; existence – the state of being alive; having life.
Muntu mutoni = alive; a living person.
Kutona = be awake.
Vulahe vua muono = lifespan.
Citeli or citele = burden.
Viteli or vitele (plural) = burdens.
Lutsilielo = trust.
Lulavelelo = hope.
Citanga = problem; challenge.
Vitanga (plural) = problems; challenges.

Citantekeyeso ca vuvezi = symptom.
Cimueso ca vuvezi = symptom.
Saka = treatment
Ku kanguka = recovery
Ku saka = treat or administer medication.
kanguka = healed or heal.
Ku katala = exhausted.
Vihemba = medicine.
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.
Kutaha = divination.

Vuvezi = illness or sickness.
Mavezi (plural) = illnesses; sicknesses.
Musongo = disease.
Misongo (plural) = diseases.
Musongo ua kulitambuisa = contagious or infectious epidemic disease or pestilence.
Lundunda = headache.
Masikasika = fever.
Kakoho = cough.
Lisinda = flu.
Lezumuka = faint.
Ku lezumuka = to faint.
Ku puputiya = blindness.
Ku hambuka = diarrhoea; dysentery.
Mbandu = wound or sore.
Kutua = to inflict.
Kutua mbandu = to inflict a wound.
Zimbandu zia ha milivu = sore throats.
Ku zimba = to be swollen.
Lihote = boil.
Mahote (plural) = boils.
Tusina = pus.
Mbumba = leprosy.
Zintiti = swollen legs and arms.
Lifulu = foam.
Mikiki = bruises.
Ku-ntsinia = epileptic fit or convulsions or epilepsy.
Kalepa = palsy.
Mukua Kalepa = a paralytic.
Holesa = heal.
Songonona = sprain.
Songoniona = sprain constantly.
Tsehula = sneeze.
Ku tsehula = to sneeze; the act of sneezing.
Hemba = blow one's nose; blow the nose.
ku hemba = to blow one's nose; the action of blowing the nose.
Kuzua = itchy.
Kusandza = vomit.
Visandzo = the disgorged content of the stomach.
Ndzandzavula = unconscious.
Vindzandi = scurvy or eczema or scabs.
Musongo ua muzimo = disease of the bowels.
Ku vulumuna = to harm; Injury

Ku-tsa = to die; death.
Ku-tsa ceni ci li ku hiehi = his death is near.
Vutsi = Mortality
Ku nonga = pass away; perish; destruction.
Vusiua = grief; sorrow.
Via-ku-tsa = funeral.
Vutsindo = burial.
Vusuana = Inheritance.
Mutsi = dead person; deceased.
Vatsi (plural) = dead people.
Vimbembesi via vatsi = spirits of the dead.
Civimbi = corpse.
Vivimbi (plural) = corpses.
Cikasa = coffin, casket or box.
Vuhango = bier; frame on which a corpse or coffin is placed before burial.
Vakua ku ambata vuhango = pallbearers.
Mumbo = tomb; grave.
Cihilo = grave; a hole dug in the ground to receive a coffin or corpse.
Vihilo (plural) = graves.
Vukalo vua vatsi = place of the dead; sheol.
Ku tsinda = to bury; put to rest.
Tsinda = bury; put to rest.
Ku tsisa = to be bereaved; bereavement.
Na tsisa = be bereaved. Example: na tsisa yalieni = she has lost her husband/ has been bereaved of her husband.
Mbumbo = sepulchre; grave mounds.
Zimbumbo = sepulchres
Muhela ua vutsindo = a grave site; a burial site; cemetery.

Luchazi Language