The interconfessional Chichewa translation (publ. 1999) uses the ideophone laŵilaŵi in Song of Songs 8:6 to describe the notion of a sparkling, fiercely flickering, and flaring light. (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)