In Gbaya, the notion of a swelling filled with fluid in Leviticus 13:19 is emphasized with yerere, an ideophone that expresses the fact of being full of water.
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 Gbaya, the notion of rain pouring down is emphasized in Psalm 68:8 with ɓululu, an ideophone that expresses the violence of heavy rain without wind.
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 Gbaya, the notion of a tight belt is emphasized in Psalm 109:19 with kpɛ́m, an ideophone that describes a very tight bond.
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 Gbaya, the notion of “pools” in Psalm 84:6 is emphasized with luŋgum, an ideophone used to describe the accumulation of water.
The previous aridity of the valley of Baca is emphasized with kútú-kútú, an ideophone that refers to a head covered with scabs, a crusty head, or something scaly.
Ideophones are a class of sound symbolic words expressing human sensation that are used as literary devices in many African languages. (Source: Philip Noss)
The interconfessional Chichewa translation (publ. 1999) uses the ideophones noninoni and chuchuchu in Song of Songs 5:5. Noninoni is used to emphasize a smooth and slippery substance with a tactile and sensual component (“my hands were slick with myrrh”) and chuchuchu describes a the sound of a gentle, continuous dropping. (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)
In Gbaya, the notion of something that obstructs (such as smoke) in Genesis 19:28 is emphasized with the ideophone ŋmak-ŋmak, which refers to something that closes, obstructs, or clutters.
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 Gbaya, the pale color of the topaz in Revelation 21:20 is emphasized with vaka-vuku, an ideophone that refers to something green, pale, like a precious stone.
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 Gbaya, the notion of the devastation and finality of death in Judges 5:27 is emphasized with ɗak-ɗak, an ideophone that is used to describe a hermetic seal, hermetically closed.
Ideophones are a class of sound symbolic words expressing human sensation that are used as literary devices in many African languages. (Source: Philip Noss)