I think it’s more like trying to translate the word “petrichor” (that particular smell that occurs after a rain) into a language of a culture that has not experienced rain before. Without the context of rain, how can you translate the word for its smell? The translation is dependent on a something that is not present.

This word is akin to that, maybe not entirely the same, but in that culture clearly there was a context that enabled a word to be created for it.