Vocabulary for roads and pathways in Luchazi

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Vocabulary for roads and pathways

Here are some words in Luchazi language that are used to describe road, pathways and their meanings in English:

Types of roads and pathways

There are many different types of roads and paths that people use for travel and transportation in their daily life.

  1. Mukuakua = road; a wide, long piece of hard ground built between two places so that people can drive or ride easily from one to the other.
  2. Mikuakua (plural) = roads.
  3. Likunkula = a wide path used by many people.
  4. Kunkuvuko = highway.
  5. Njila = Path, trodden way; a way or track laid down for walking or made by continual treading.
  6. Zinjila (plural) = paths.
  7. Kasosuanjila = footpath; a narrow path for walkers only; a path especially in the countryside, for walking on.
  8. Tusosuanjila (plural) = footpaths.
  9. Kasosuanjila ku ala mavue = pavement.
  10. Tusosuanjila tua ku ala mavue (plural) = pavements.
  11. Tapalo = street; a public road in a city, town, or village, typically with houses and buildings on one or both sides.
  12. Matapalo (plural) = streets.
  13. Mukunku = trail; a track made by passage especially through a wilderness; a marked or established path or route especially through a forest or mountainous region.
  14. Mikunku (plural) = trails.
  15. Mankano a mukuakua = head of the road; the fork of the road.
  16. Cavu = bridge.
  17. Viavu (plural) = bridges.
  18. Ngunja = tunnel.
  19. Zingunja (plural) = tunnels.

Road signs and signals

  1. Ntaka = waymark or a symbol or signpost marking the route of a footpath.
  2. Zintaka (plural) = waymarks; road marks.
  3. Ntaka ya ku mana = stop markings.
  4. Zintaka ha ku zombokela = pedestrian crossing markings.
  5. Muinikilo = directional arrow.
  6. Cimueso = sign or mark.
  7. Citantekeyeso = sign.
  8. Cimueso ca ku mana = stop sign.
  9. Cimueso ca njila imo = One-way sign
  10. Cimueso ca vutuhukelo = exit sign
  11. Cimueso ca vukovelelo = entry sign.
  12. Viakula = flash
  13. Ku viakula = Flashing lights.
  14. Hiatula = flash.
  15. Ku hiatula = to flash.
  16. Hiatuisa = to make it flash

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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