beautiful

In Gbaya, the notion of great beauty in Judith 10:4 with boɗoe, an ideophone that describes something clear and clean, like a beautiful, spotless face, a body in perfect health.

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 ruddy.

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