Vocabulary for life, health, and death in Luchazi

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. 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.
  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.

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. Vindza = groan.
  8. Ku vindzuoka = to groan in pain; stress.
  9. Kuzeya = weakness; to be weak.
  10. 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 = the process of making or becoming sound or healthy again; 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 ca cipatela = hospital isolation ward.
  11. Cipango = the isolation shelter for someone undergoing traditional treatment or purification rituals.
  12. Cisakala ca cipatela = hospital ward.
  13. Ku katala = exhausted.
  14. Vihemba = medicine.
  15. 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.
  16. Kutaha = divination.
  17. Cimbanda = traditional physician; herbalist. 
  18. Vimbanda (plural) = traditional physicians; herbalists.
  19. Ndotolo = doctor.
  20. Vandotolo (plural) = doctors.
  21. Mukua ku saka = the healer.
  22. Mukua ku kanguisa = the healer.
  23. 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. Cisusula = venereal disease; gonorrhea.
  11. Vususula = venereal disease; gonorrhea.
  12. Lezumuka = faint.
  13. Ku lezumuka = to faint.
  14. Ku puputiya = blindness.
  15. Ku hambuka = diarrhoea; dysentery.
  16. Mbandu = wound or sore.
  17. Kutua = to inflict.
  18. Kutua mbandu = to inflict a wound.
  19. Zimbandu zia ha milivu = sore throats.
  20. Zimba = swollen.
  21. Ku zimba = to be swollen.
  22. Lihote = boil.
  23. Mahote (plural) = boils.
  24. Tusina = pus.
  25. Mbumba = leprosy.
  26. Zintiti = swollen legs and arms.
  27. Lifulu = foam.
  28. Mikiki = bruises.
  29. Ku-ntsinia = epileptic fit or convulsions or epilepsy.
  30. Kalepa = palsy.
  31. Mukua Kalepa = a paralytic.
  32. Songonona = sprain.
  33. Songoniona = sprain constantly.
  34. Tsehula = sneeze.
  35. Ku tsehula = to sneeze; the act of sneezing.
  36. Hemba = blow one's nose; blow the nose.
  37. ku hemba = to blow one's nose; the action of blowing the nose.
  38. Kuzua = itchy.
  39. Kusandza = vomit.
  40. Visandzo = the disgorged content of the stomach.
  41. Ndzandzavula = unconscious.
  42. Vindzandi = scurvy or eczema or scabs.
  43. Musongo ua muzimo = disease of the bowels.
  44. 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
  29. Kanonga = memorial.

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