In Gbaya, the notion of the handsome tightness of his curls or hair in Song of Songs 5:11 is emphasized with síp-síp, an ideophone used to describe the state or quality of tightness together.
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)