The interconfessional Chichewa translation (publ. 1999) uses the ideophone see in Song of Songs 7:4 to describe the notion of long, straight, smooth, and elegant (“your neck stands tall and straight like an ivory tower”). (Source: Ernst Wendland)
Ideophones are a class of sound symbolic words expressing human sensation that are used as literary devices in many African languages. (Source: Philip Noss)
See also your kisses go down smoothly and your nose is like a tower of Lebanon.
