In Gbaya, the notion of “weighed down with sleep” in Luke 9:32 is emphasized with gbéyéŋ, an ideophone used to describe something falling to the ground. Ideophones are a class of sound symbolic words expressing human sensation that are used as literary devices in many African languages. (Source: Philip Noss)

In the Catholic Mandarin Chinese Sigao version it is translated with a historical Chinese idiom: hūnhūn yùshuì (昏昏欲睡), lit. “drowsy and wanting to sleep.” (Source: Toshikazu S. Foley in Hong Kong Journal of Catholic Studies, 2011, p. 45ff.)