In Gbaya, the notion of wet hair (“my head is wet with dew”) in Song of Songs 5:2 is emphasized with ɗùkùyùkù, an ideophone used to describe the color and texture of his moist hair, also implying her anticipation.

Ideophones are a class of sound symbolic words expressing human sensation that are used as literary devices in many African languages. Since the subject matter of Songs of Songs is particularly conducive to the use of ideophones, there are a total of 30 ideophones in the Gbaya Bible in that short biblical book alone. (Source: Philip Noss)