In Gbaya, the notion of the clearness, cleanness, and spotless perfection of the “ruddy” lover (i.e. a person with a lighter skin color) in Song of Songs 5:10 is emphasized with boɗoe, an ideophone used to describe something clear and clean, like a beautiful, spotless face, a body in perfect health.

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)

See also ruddy (1 Samuel 16:12).