In Gbaya, the notion of not showing partiality to the poor (i.e. not abandoning the poor) in Sirach 35:16 is emphasized with wɔkɔrɔ, an ideophone designating an abandoned place, or a person left alone, forsaken.
Ideophones are a class of sound symbolic words expressing human sensation that are used as literary devices in many African languages. (Source: Philip Noss)