In Gbaya, the notion of the meat’s tenderness in Ezekiel 24:5 is emphasized with yɛɗɛ-yɛɗɛ, an ideophone that expresses being soft, tender like meat cooked to be very tender and easy to eat.
Ideophones are a class of sound symbolic words expressing human sensation that are used as literary devices in many African languages. (Source: Philip Noss)