The interconfessional Chichewa translation (publ. 1999) uses the ideophones neng’a and chezichezi in Song of Songs 7:5. Neng’a is used to emphasize something perfectly shaped with refined poise (“your head is nobly poised”) and chezichezi describes a light, continuous wave with a cascading motion (“your long hair flows and shimmers downward”). (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)

See also his locks.