lips (sweetness of)

The Hebrew in Song of Songs 5:13 that is translated as “lips are lilies, distilling liquid myrrh” in English is emphasized in Gbaya with the ideophone ɓisisi.

Ideophones are a class of sound symbolic words expressing human sensation that are used as literary devices in many African languages. (Source: Philip Noss)

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