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

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

Health terms and phrases in Luchazi

1. Cihindu = well-being; good health.
2. Vukangule = soundness of the body; well-being; good health.
3. Ua hinduka = are you well. Wellness.
4. Vavala = sick; pain.
5. Ku vavala = to be in pain.
6. Ku vavala = to be sick; fall sick; unwell.
7. Na vavala = he or she is unwell.
8. Vindza = groan.
9. Ku vindzuoka = to groan in pain; stress.
10. Vuzeye = weakness; feebleness.
11. Kuzeya = weakness; to be weak.
12. Niomua = impotent; weak; incapacitated.
13. Tutumuisa = take a break or relief.
14. Cihuihui = grasp.
15. Huilila na cihuihui = grasping for breath.
16. Huimangana na cihuihui = pant for breath.
17. Senguluka = paleness.

Luchazi proverb: Menekela mukuenu; vuvezi vu enda vutsiki (Visit your friend early in the morning; illness walks in the night).

Vulanguluisi: Ku vavala ce ku tu uana ha kati ka vutsiki mukemo ca cili ku meneka kavusamba na ku tantekeya cihindu ceni cimene. Kati u pue mukua malanga.

Ku Hetesa: Fuitangana vipanga viove cimenemene omo u ci li na ntsimbu hamo na cihindu muomu via vingi vi hasa ku tu solokela vutsiki.

Medical terms and related traditional terms in Luchazi

1. Citantekeyeso ca vuvezi = symptom.
2. Cimueso ca vuvezi = signs or symptom.
3. Saka = treatment.
4. Vukanguiso = treatment.
5. Vukanguisi = the process of making or becoming sound or healthy again; healing.
6. Kanguisa = heal.
7. Kanguka = recovery
8. Saka = treat or administer medication.
9. kanguka = healed or heal.
10. Holesa = heal.
11. Kuata = admission.
12. Cipatela = hospital or clinic.
13. Cipango ca cipatela = hospital isolation ward.
14. Cipango = the isolation shelter for someone undergoing traditional treatment or purification rituals.
15. Cisakala ca cipatela = hospital ward.
16. Ku katala = exhausted.
17. Cihemba = medicine; drug; medicinal herb.
18. Vihemba (plural) = medicines; drugs; medicinal herbs.
19. Vumbanda = drugs; medicinal herbs; magical potion; charms.
20. 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.
21. Kutaha = divination.
22. Cimbanda = traditional physician; herbalist. 
23. Vimbanda (plural) = traditional physicians; herbalists.
24. Ndotolo = doctor.
25. Vandotolo (plural) = doctors.
26. Mukua ku saka = the healer.
27. Mukua ku kanguisa = the healer.
28. Muyoyesi

Luchazi proverb: Ha ku hambukila ka he ku zela masu (Where people deficate there will be no lack of urine).

Vulanguluisi: Omo vantu va li na ku endela hamo kaha umnosi a tula vize via nambata na ku kovela mu musenge mukemo naua vaze venda neni va ka tula viavo na ku mu kava linga va muanie mema.

Ku Hetesa: Ntsimbu yose tu li na cilika ca ku kava umo na mukuavo.

Illness and conditions in Luchazi

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. Musongo ua vuhokame = weight loss.
7. Cisako = malady.
8. Visako (plural) = maladies.
9. Lundunda = headache.
10. Masikasika = fever.
11. Kakoho = cough.
12. Lisinda = flu.
13. Cisusula = venereal disease; gonorrhea.
14. Vususula = venereal disease; gonorrhea.
15. Kantsoke = hiccup.
16. Kahati = pleurisy; stabbing lung pain.
17. Vendukuta = limp.
18. Ku vendukuta  = to limp.
19. Kalepa = paralysis.
20. Kayekele = paralysis; crippled.
21. Lezumuka = faint.
22. Ku lezumuka = to faint.
23. Ku puputiya = blindness.
24. Musongo ua ku hambuka = diarrhoea; dysentery.
25. Musongo ua ku hambuka maninga = dysentery.
26. Mbandu = wound or sore.
27. Mbandu ya mukongo
28. Mbandu ya ku-tsa = fatal wound; fatal injury.
29. Kutua = to inflict.
30. Kutua mbandu = to inflict a wound.
31. Zimbandu zia ha milivu = sore throats.
32. Zimba = swollen.
33. Ku zimba = to be swollen.
34. Lihote = boil.
35. Mahote (plural) = boils.
36. Tusina = pus.
37. Mbumba = leprosy.
38. Zintiti = swollen legs and arms.
39. Lifulu = foam.
40. Mikiki = bruises.
41. Ku-ntsinia = epileptic fit or convulsions or epilepsy.
42. Kalepa = palsy.
43. Mukua Kalepa = a paralytic.
44. Songonona = sprain.
45. Songoniona = sprain constantly.
46. Tsehula = sneeze.
47. Ku tsehula = to sneeze; the act of sneezing.
48. Hemba = blow one's nose; blow the nose.
49. ku hemba = to blow one's nose; the action of blowing the nose.
50. Hembula = to blow or breath forcefully through the nostrils.
51. Nokola = nosebleed.
52. Kuzua = itchy.
53. Kusandza = vomit.
54. Visandzo = the disgorged content of the stomach.
55. Ndzandzavula = unconscious.
56. Vindzandi = scurvy or eczema or scabs.
57. Musongo ua muzimo = disease of the bowels.
58. Musongo ua mutima = disease of the heart.
59. Musongo ua ku masapala = disease of the lungs.
60. Musongo ua ku lisuli = disease of the liver.
61. Musongo ua ku zintso = disease of the kidneys.
62. Ku vulumuna = to harm; Injury.

Luchazi proverb: Kasekele ka mu Kavangu, ha tsila ka tu ka uanaho citsiha (The San person of the Kavangu River, where he dies we don't find a bone).

Vulanguluisi: Kasekele ua kala ku ndonga Kuvangu kaha omo umo uavo a tsa, a tsa ngoco ke ku sila vimosi, cipue citsiha ku vakuavo.

Ku Hetesa: Yoya muono uove na mana linga omo u tsa vantu va ka ku lilila na ku vuluka via cili hali ove.

Death terms and phrases in Luchazi

1. Tsa = die.
2. Ku-tsa = to die; death.
3. Ku-tsa ceni ci li ku hiehi = his death is near.
4. Vutsi = death ; mortality; extinction.
5. Nonga = pass away; perish; destruction.
6. Via-ku-tsa = funeral.
7. Ndzivo ya via-ku-tsa = funeral parlour or house.
8. Ndzivo ya ku tulika vatsi = mortuary; morgue.
9. Ndzivo ya ku zekela vivimbi = charnel house; a building in which corpses or bones are piled.
10. Hondo ya tufunde = chapel of rest; an undertaker's mortuary.
11. Kafunde = undertaker; burier; one who buries; burial attendant.
12. Tufunde (plural) = undertakers; burial crew.
13. Vutsindo = burial.
14. Vusuana = Inheritance.
15. Mutsi = dead person; deceased.
16. Vatsi (plural) = dead people.
17. Vimbembesi via vatsi = spirits of the dead.
18. Civimbi = corpse.
19. Vivimbi (plural) = corpses.
20. Ku saka civimbi = emblem.
21. Cikasa ca mutsi = coffin; casket
22. Vuhango = bier; frame on which a corpse or coffin is placed before burial.
23. Vakua ku ambata vuhango = pallbearers.
24. Mumbo = tomb; grave.
25. Cihilo = grave; a hole dug in the ground to receive a coffin or corpse.
26. Vihilo (plural) = graves.
27. Vukalo vua vatsi = place of the dead; sheol.
28. Tsinda = bury; put to rest.
29. Tiavelela = cremation.
30. Ku tiavelela ca civimbi = to burn the body of the deceased; cremation.
31. Tsisa = be bereaved; bereavement.
32. Na tsisa = be bereaved. Example: na tsisa yalieni = she has lost her husband/ has been bereaved of her husband.
33. Mbumbo = sepulchre; grave mounds.
34. Zimbumbo = sepulchres
35. Muhela ua vutsindo = a grave site; a burial site; cemetery.
36. Mbozo = the ruins of the house (especially a deceased person).
37. Kanonga = memorial.