The interconfessional Chichewa translation (publ. 1999) uses the ideophone tseketseketseke in Song of Songs 2:3 to describe exquisite sweetness (“you can almost feel it crackle/tingle”), pleasant sharpness, juicy delight. (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)