In Gbaya, the notion of his handsome black hair in Song of Songs 5:11 is emphasized with ɓɔ́tɔ́tɔ́, an ideophone used to describe the deepest of blacks.

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)