People and occupation vocabulary in Luchazi

People and their occupations in Luchazi

Here are the words and phrases used to talk about work that people do in Luchazi and their meanings in English.

General work terms and phrases 

1. Vupange = employment; service; work; responsibility.
2. Cipanga = work; job; task.
3. Vipanga (plural) = works; jobs; tasks; service.
4. Cipangi = work; job; task.
5. Vipangi (plural) = works; jobs; tasks; service.
6. Ndzivo ya vipanga = workplace.
7. Panga = work.
8. Pangununa = make.
9. Pangunuine = made.
10. Pangele = worked.
11. Vihangununo via vupange = divisions of labour or employment or work.
12. Ku-sekasiana = merchandise; business; buying and selling.
13. Vuntompo = indentured servitude.
14. Vundungo = slavery.
15. Vungamba = servitude; stewardship.
16. Vusendo = confederacy; partnership; alliance.
17. Vusongo = stewardship.
18. Vundotolo = state of being a doctor; doctorate.
19. Vukoloyi = mail handling; courier.
20. Vungangula = craftsmanship; artisanship; blacksmithing.
21. Vumesene = workmanship.
22. Vusualale = military.
23. Vuyambi = game hunting.
24. Vunianga = game hunting.
25. Kapandi = duty; responsibility.
26. Cimona = vision.
27. Ndzozi = vision; dream.
28. Kapolua = purpose.
29. Kana = plan; purpose.
30. Ku kana = to plan; to have a purpose.
31. Ku likanuuela = to plan; to have a purpose.
32. Kundika = commitment.
33. Tsita = focus; fix.
34. Tsita meso = fix or focus eyes on something.
35. Linga = do; act.
36. Cilinga = action; deed; act.
37. Vilinga (plural) = acts; actions; deeds.
38. Vutongue = immaculate; neat; pristine.
39. Fuita = toil; labour.
40. Fuitangana = make to toil about; labouring; toiling.
41. Vifuitangana (plural)
42. Cihunda = labour; strive; struggle; endeavour.
43. Vihunda (plural)
44. Vihundangana = make to labour about.
45. Ku pasuka ha luholo = be successful; have good success.
46. Lania = hire
47. Fueto = wage; salary.
48. Ku pangela fueto = to work for money or material reward; to do menial work; to serve for hire.
49. Vupange vua vundungo = forced labour.
50. Vantu va ngoco = common people.
51. Hangula = choose.
52. Himpula = change.
53. Vihimpuiso = transformations; changes.
54. Pandama = belong to.
55. Kundama = associate.
56. Cimona = vision.
57. Ndzumbu = order.
58. Sungama = be straight.
59. Hona = fail 
60. Honoua = failure.
61. Simina = fail to meet certain expectations or standards; come short.

Luchazi proverb: Mina mu ua minina, nkama ya mukuenu i ku tsakamena ha milivu (Swallow the way you always swallow; the fist-size lump of your friend will get stuck in your throat).

Vulanguluisi: kati u kave mbunga mu ku linga viuma viove cipue kati u seteka ku tambuluisa vakuenu mu vilinga viavo na mu vipanga viavo. Mu vuyoye vuetu tu li na ciseteko ca vuana vueka na vueka. Hamosi tu seteka ku tambuluisa muntu mukuavo vunoni vize vi tu fuitangana ka via ku tantuluka ngue uze i tu na seteka ku tambuluisa.

Ku Hetesa: Ngue ku muntu ku muntu na vuana ueni, panga navuo. Hamosi vipanga viove ka via tantulukile ngue uze ua kala na vutongue cipue vumesene.

People's jobs or occupations in Luchazi 

The pronoun mukua (plural. vakua) is placed immediately before the word or phrase it governs, meaning "he who, he that, or the one who".

1. Mukua ku panga = worker.
2. Vakua ku panga (plural) = workers.
3. Ngamba = servant; steward.
4. Ngamba ua mpuevo = maid; female servant.
5. Ngamba ua fueto = hired worker.
6. Mukua ku pangela fueto = hired worker; hireling.
7. Ntompo = indentured servant.
8. Vantompo (plural) = indentured servants.
9. Ndungo = slave.
10. Vandungo (plural) = slaves.
11. Mukua koloyi= mail runner; courier.
12. ...na ku tuma mikanda hali vakua koloyi va tuvalu... (Esther 8:10).
13. Kanganda = messenger.
14. Mukua ku pangesa = foreman.
15. Mukua ku pangesa vipanga via vikalu = taskmaster; a person who imposes a harsh or onerous workload on someone.
16. Kapitau = supervisor.
17. Kapatasi = overseer.
18. Mesele = carpenter; wood craftsman or artisan; founder.
19. Masele ua ku hiana = master workman or founder.
20. Vakalupindelo = wood craftsmen or artisans; carpenters.
21. Ngangula = blacksmith; craftsman or artisan; founder.
22. Mukua ku tunga ndzivo = house builder.
23. Mukua ku tungisa ndopi = bricklayer; stonemason.
24. Vapetelelo = bricklayers; stonemasons.
25. Ntsongi = potter.
26. Ntsongi ua zindoho = potter.
27. Mukua ku olovela = fish angler.
28. Mukua ku kuata vantsi = fisherman.
29. Mukua ku talika na vuanda = embroider.
30. Mukua ku tunga ntanga = tailor.
31. Mukua ku-ose = weaver.
32. Mukua ku lisa zintanga = fuller; cloth-maker; a person who dyes clothes.
33. Mukua ku panga mbolo = baker.
34. Mukua ku makela = food taster; chief taster.
35. Mukua ku hiana lembu = eloquent orator.
36. Mukua ku ambulula = preacher.
37. Mukua ku soneka = secretary.
38. Mukua ku niunga vupite = treasurer.
39. Mukua ku niunga kamenga = prison official; prison warden.
40. Mukua ku niunga vukovelelo = door bounce; keepers of the entry point.
41. Mukua ku vingila = watchman.
42. Kakuniungu = guard.
43. Mukua ku honda vantu = hangman; executioner.
44. Musualale = soldier; serviceman.
45. Mukua ku soneka mizimbu = journalist; reporter.
46. Mukua ku nona mizimbu = journalist; reporter.
47. Mukua ku zimbula mizimbu = reporter.
48. Mukua ku tanda muzimbu = newscaster.
49. Mulongisi = teacher; lecturer.
50. Mukua ku longesa = a person who teaches or lectures.
51. Mukua ku sikula = counsellor.
52. Ndotolo = doctor.
53. Mukua ku hakuila = defense lawyer.
54. Mukua lemba = pharmacist; chemist; apothecary; a person who prepares and sells medicines.
55. Mukua ku taha muilu = horoscope writer; astrologer; a person who forecasts a person's future, typically including a delineation of character and circumstances, based on the relative positions of the stars and planets at the time of that person's birth.
56. Mukua ku laleka = forecaster; prognosticator.
57. Mukua mangana = wise person.
58. Mukua mana = a person endued with knowledge.
59. Vakua tusendo = people joined by an agreement or treaty; confederate; allies.
60. Nava va puile vakua tusendo tua Avilama (Gen. 14:13).
61. Mukua livenda = shopkeeper; retailer; shop owner; entrepreneur.
62. Kaselo = businessman.
63. Tuselo (plural) = businessmen.
64. Mukua ku kasa mato = oarsman.
65. Vakua ku kasa mato (plural) = oarsmen.
66. Mukua ku sunga mato = sailor.
67. Vakua ku sunga mato (plural) = sailors.
68. Mukua ku zika mato = ship's carpenter; calker.
69. Ndimi = farmer.
70. Vandimi (plural) = farmers.

To be continued...

Luchazi proverb: Mucila ua mpembe ua komboziola ha ua sungama (A goat's tail sweeps clean to where it reaches).

Vulanguluisi: Mucila ua mpembe ua uihi vunoni ue ku komboziola mua cili haze ha ya heta. Mukemo naua cipue muntu ka kele na vipanga via seho, hanga a hasa ku liendelela mua cili na vantu vaze va na mu zingilika.

Ku Hetesa: Vutuhu hamosi ka ua kele na seho ya kama cipue vipanga via ku tuamenena via vingi hanga u hasa ku panga na vucili vuose.

Positive task-oriented words and phrases in Luchazi

1. Mukua ku linga na ku panga = a doer of work; a person who  does the works.
2. Takama = active; vigorous; always busy with something.
3. Kaniama
4. Kaniamesele 
5. Tantuluka = perfect.
6. Mukua ku tantuluka = a perfect person; a blameless person; perfectionist; a person who wants everything to be done right and perfectly.
7. Ku-tsila mutima = to be focused or single-hearted; sincere and dedicated; honest; faithful; singleness of heart.
8. Ku likanuuela mu mutima = to plan or prepare in the heart.
9. Lunongotima = diligence; careful and persistent effort or work; conscientious or taking time to do things carefully.
10. Simpa = endure or to remain firm under suffering or misfortune without yielding.
11. Mukua ku simpa = a person of valour.
12. Simpitika = to be inspired with courage, spirit or hope.
13. Ku lisimpitika = to be courageous.
14. Lukakatela = perseverance or patience.
15. Ntsintsa = patience.
16. Takama = being characterized by steady, earnest and energetic effort or hardworking; diligence, energetic effort.
17. Mukua ku takama = a person who is industrious.
18. Muku = courage or inspiration.
19. Vuoloke = integrity.
20. Mukua ku futunka = a high-minded person; having very high moral standards of behaviour.
21. Ku zika mutima = determined; steadfastly minded.
22. Ku-kana ca kama ca mutima = great plans of heart or great thoughts of heart.
23. Ku-hilula ca kama ca mutima = great searchings of heart or great reviews of heart.

Negative task-oriented words and phrases in Luchazi

1. Vuimbi = Careless; not being careful, rushing into things.
2. Langa = delay in doing something.
3. Ku langesa = to make delays.
4. Tangula = lead astray.
5. Citanguizi = a person who leads others astray.
6. Mukua vuimbi = careless person.
7. Vakua vuimbi = careless people.
8. Cilenda = lazy person or a person who has a love of ease and dislike work or activity, lazybones, do-little or slouch.
9. Vulenda = laziness; unwilling to work or lack of effort.
10. Vuli = showing a lack of energy or effort or care; not energetic.
11. Ndzingulu = sluggishness; slothfulness; apathy; going round in circles.
12. Kati mu pange na ndzingulu = don't work slothful.
13. Ku lihola malambi = to make excuses.

Words and phrases related to work in Luchazi

1. Neza mu ku panga = he has come to work.
2. A pange-pange = may he keep on working.
3. Pangenu = you work.
4. Va ka pange = may they work.
5. Panga-pangenu = keep on working.
6. Tu pangenu = let us work.
7. Ku panga, tua pangele (emphasis) = work, we worked.
8. Na tu pangesesa = he made us work more; he has used us to do the work.
9. Cikeco kati ku panga, ku tsa vene = that isn't the way to work, it is death.
10. Kanda u pange? = You have not yet worked?
11. Kanda u panga? = You have not begun working?
12. Ka pangele = he did not work.
13. Lelo a pange (obligatory) = today he shall work.
14. U na pande ku panga (obligatory) = you must work.
15. Panga na ku cinguezi = work until evening.
16. Nja kele na ku panga = I was working.
17. Kati u leme tulo, ku tina u hete ku vuhutu = do not love to sleep, lest you come to poverty.
18. A kuana ku hutua uze a panga livoko lia vuli = he finds poverty he that works with a slack hand.
19. Muono ua cileya u sunguiya, kaha ka uesi na kamo = the soul of the sluggard desires and has nothing (Proverbs 13: 4).
20. Nga umosi ka hianga ku panga, kati a lie naua = If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat as well.
21. Mu vipanga viose mua kala nganio; vunoni vihandeka via milungu vi tuala ku vuhutu lika = in all work there is profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.
22. Livoko lia vakua ku takama li ka sika = the hand of diligent rules.