The Greek that is translated as “devour” or similar in English is translated in Elhomwe as “chew,” the term that is used for “eating meat.” (Source: project-specific translation notes in Paratext)
See also eat (meat).
consume, devour
The interconfessional Chichewa translation (publ. 1999) uses the ideophone psiti to emphasize the totality of the consuming or devouring of something. (Source: Wendland 1998, p. 105)
Ideophones are a class of sound symbolic words expressing human sensation that are used as literary devices in many Central African languages. (Source: Philip Noss)