The interconfessional Chichewa translation (publ. 1999) uses the ideophone gone in Song of Songs 1:7 to describe the ease with which the king was reclining. Gone is an ideophone that is normally used for being stretched out or something that is fully relaxed and here refers to a leisurely, luxurious posture. (Source: Ernst Wendland)

Ideophones are a class of sound symbolic words expressing human sensation that are used as literary devices in many African languages. (Source: Philip Noss)