la chumvi nyingi

Literally, “to eat a lot of salt”.

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-la chumvi nyingi (infinitive kula chumvi nyingi)

1. (idiomatic) to live a long life

• Luffin, Xavier (2002 September) “Language Taboos In Kinubi: A Comparison With Sudanese And Swahili Cultures”, in Africa: Rivista trimestrale di studi e documentazione dell'Istituto italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente‎, volume 57, number 3, page 361 of 356-367: “Another interesting expression underlines the link between salt and life: fulani amekula chumvi nyingi, literally "someone who ate a lot of salt", means that a person had a long life (Johnson, 1939, p. 65).”