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. Mukua = breath.
2. Muku ua muono = breath of life.
3. Ku semuua = birth - the beginning of life.
4. Kolo = grow (of a living thing) or undergo natural development by increasing in size and changing physically.
5. Ku kolo = to grow; growth – the physical or mental development.
6. Himpuka= change; alter; modify; become something else.
7. Litula = survival – continuing to live, especially in difficult conditions.
8. Kapolua = purpose or goal.
9. Ku likanuuela = to plan; to have a purpose; to have a purpose – the reason for living.
10. Ku likanuuela mu mutima = to plan or prepare in the heart.
11. Muono = life.
12. Miono (plural) = lives.
13. Vuyoye = state of existence or survival; life; being.
14. Yoya = live; survival.
15. ku yoya mu vutupuke = to live in luxury.
16. Vutupuke = luxury; dainty; delight.
17. Mutoni = alive; (of a person, animal, or plant) living, not dead; existence – the state of being alive; having life.
18. Muntu mutoni = a living person.
19. Kutona = be awake.
20. Vulahe vua muono = lifespan; longevity.
21. Citeli or citele = burden.
22. Viteli or vitele (plural) = burdens.
23. Lutsilielo = trust.
24. Lulavelelo = hope.
25. Citanga = problem; challenge.
26. Vitanga (plural) = problems; challenges.
27. 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. Laleka = prognosis.
4. Saka = treatment.
5. Vukanguiso = treatment.
6. Vukanguisi = the process of making or becoming sound or healthy again; healing.
7. Kanguisa = heal.
8. Kanguka = recovery
9. Saka = treat or administer medication.
10. kanguka = healed or heal.
11. Holesa = heal.
12. Kuata = admission.
13. Cipatela = hospital or clinic.
14. Cipango ca cipatela = hospital isolation ward.
15. Cipango = the isolation shelter for someone undergoing traditional treatment or purification rituals.
16. Cisakala ca cipatela = hospital ward.
17. Ku katala = exhausted.
18. Cihemba = medicine; drug; medicinal herb.
19. Vihemba (plural) = medicines; drugs; medicinal herbs.
20. Vumbanda = drugs; medicinal herbs; magical potion; charms.
21. 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.
22. Taha = divination.
23. Cimbanda = traditional physician; herbalist. 
24. Vimbanda (plural) = traditional physicians; herbalists.
25. Ndotolo = doctor.
26. Vandotolo (plural) = doctors.
27. Mukua ku saka = the healer.
28. Mukua ku kanguisa = the healer.
29. 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 due to uncleanness.
8. Visako (plural) = maladies.
9. Lundunda = headache.
10. Mitanda = backache.
11. Masikasika = fever.
12. Kakoho = cough.
13. Lisinda = flu.
14. Cisusula = venereal disease; gonorrhea.
15. Vususula = venereal disease; gonorrhea.
16. Ku susula tusina = discharge pus from the penis or private part.
17. Kantsoke = hiccup.
18. Kahati = pleurisy; stabbing lung pain.
19. Vendukuta = limp.
20. Ku vendukuta  = to limp.
21. Kalepa = paralysis.
22. Kayekele = paralysis; crippled.
23. Lezumuka = faint.
24. Ku lezumuka = to faint.
25. Ku puputiya = blindness.
26. Musongo ua ku hambuka = diarrhoea; dysentery.
27. Musongo ua ku hambuka maninga = dysentery.
28. Mbandu = wound or sore.
29. Mbandu ya mukongo
30. Mbandu ya ku-tsa = fatal wound; fatal injury.
31. Kutua = to inflict.
32. Kutua mbandu = to inflict a wound.
33. Zimbandu zia ha milivu = sore throats.
34. Citamba ca mbandu = scar.
35. Lizimbo = swelling.
36. Zimba = swollen.
37. Ku zimba = to be swollen.
38. Tuntamana = swell out.
39. Lihote = boil.
40. Mahote (plural) = boils.
41. Cimbulu = pimple; skin rash; freckle; freckled spot.
42. Vimbulu (plural) = pimples; skin rashes; freckles; freckled spots.
43. Tusina = pus.
44. Mbumba = leprosy.
45. Zintiti = swollen legs and arms.
46. Lifulu = foam.
47. Mikiki = bruises.
48. Ku-ntsinia = epileptic fit or convulsions or epilepsy.
49. Kalepa = palsy.
50. Mukua Kalepa = a paralytic.
51. Songonona = sprain.
52. Songoniona = sprain constantly.
53. Tsehula = sneeze.
54. Ku tsehula = to sneeze; the act of sneezing.
55. Hemba = blow one's nose; blow the nose.
56. ku hemba = to blow one's nose; the action of blowing the nose.
57. Hembula = to blow or breath forcefully through the nostrils.
58. Nokola = nosebleed.
59. Kuzua = itchy.
60. Kusandza = vomit.
61. Visandzo = the disgorged content of the stomach.
62. Ndzandzavula = unconscious.
63. Vindzandi = scurvy or eczema or scabs.
64. Likuaku = skin eruption disease; scurvy; eczema.
65. Musongo ua muzimo = disease of the bowels.
66. Musongo ua mutima = disease of the heart.
67. Musongo ua ku masapala = disease of the lungs.
68. Musongo ua ku lisuli = disease of the liver.
69. Musongo ua ku zintso = disease of the kidneys.
70. 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. Ku suma lipayi = to bite the blanket (an expression that means 'to die').
5. Vutsi = death ; mortality; extinction.
6. Nonga = pass away; perish; destruction.
7. Via-ku-tsa = funeral.
8. Ndzivo ya via-ku-tsa = funeral parlour or house.
9. Ndzivo ya ku tulika vatsi = mortuary; morgue.
10. Ndzivo ya ku zekela vivimbi = charnel house; a building in which corpses or bones are piled.
11. Hondo ya tufunde = chapel of rest; an undertaker's mortuary.
12. Kafunde = undertaker; burier; one who buries; burial attendant.
13. Tufunde (plural) = undertakers; burial crew.
14. Vutsindo = burial.
15. Vusuana = Inheritance.
16. Mutsi = dead person; deceased.
17. Vatsi (plural) = dead people.
18. Vimbembesi via vatsi = spirits of the dead.
19. Civimbi = corpse.
20. Vivimbi (plural) = corpses.
21. Ku saka civimbi = emblem.
22. Cikasa ca mutsi = coffin; casket
23. Vuhango = bier; frame on which a corpse or coffin is placed before burial.
24. Vakua ku ambata vuhango = pallbearers.
25. Mumbo = tomb; grave.
26. Cihilo = grave; a hole dug in the ground to receive a coffin or corpse.
27. Vihilo (plural) = graves.
28. Vukalo vua vatsi = place of the dead; sheol.
29. Tsinda = bury; put to rest.
30. Tiavelela = cremation.
31. Ku tiavelela ca civimbi = to burn the body of the deceased; cremation.
32. Kaha va hetele Yavese, na ku va tiavelela... (1 Samuel 31:12).
33. Kaha Omo kavusoko ka muntu a ka mu kuata, uze vene a ka mu tiavelela... (Amos 6:10).
34. Tsisa = be bereaved; bereavement.
35. Na tsisa = be bereaved. Example: na tsisa yalieni = she has lost her husband/ has been bereaved of her husband.
36. Mbumbo = sepulchre; grave mounds.
37. Zimbumbo = sepulchres.
38. Muhela ua vutsindo = a grave site; a burial site; cemetery.
39. Mbozo = the ruins of the house (especially a deceased person).
40. Kanonga = memorial.