new moon / full moon

In Gbaya, the notion of the bright clear moon in Psalms 81:3 is emphasized with mgbal-mgbal, an ideophone used to describe something that is clear and unambiguous (“the moon shining mgbal-mgbal“).

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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