Somali word for please?

[Futurist]

That's true, it is a loanword. However, Kadinka means doorway (the area under the door and around it) and irid means the opening in the wall which is designated as a doorway.

I don't think there is an actual somali word for a door (that rectangular wooden or metal piece) because in Aqal Somali therearen't doors, just lots of openings from one space/room to another. Cultures develop languages from what they have in their surroundings and what they use. Hence if we don't have that word, we outsource it from a neighbouring country. At some point it stops bring a loanword if a group of people use nothing else except that.

Irida soo xidh miyaanu odaygaagu ku odhan for a quicky.

Isla yaab sxb. Whatever happened to decorum? Buddhists manners ma lahan miyaa?

[YummyMummy]

YM Aqal Somali doesnt have wooden doors but it does have a doorway (kadin/irid) and a covering (abjid?) with the same function. So these words are I think the nearest Somali words to Al Baab. Kadinka xidh is a legitimate use of the word.

All are legitimate (as in they work when you use them on people), but none actually mean the physical door except for arbaab, and the origin of that is Arabic.

[Macarons]

baryo? tuugso?

Waan ku tuugiya ee albaabka iga fur

Waan ku tuugaa waan ku baryaa Sounds pathetic.

Please comes from "If you please". So adigoo raali ah is correct.

[metamorphosis]

raali is an arabic word as well. Our language is full of borrowed words..we were probably just as lazy about language as are about our food.

[PanSomaliNationalist]

I wanna know how to say hello I don't mind saying fadlan tbh but not having our own greeting kinda messed up. like how did they greet eachother before islam

[Vivacious]

There is no somali word for happiness either only sadness.

Bashbash/reynreyn?

[Futurist]

I wanna know how to say hello I don't mind saying fadlan tbh but not having our own greeting kinda messed up. like how did they greet eachother before islam

Ma nabadaa

(Insert time of day) wanaagsan e.g. habeen wanaagsaan

Or just haalooow

[X.Playa]

There is no somali word for happiness either only sadness.

Bashbash/reynreyn?

Waan bashbashanay iyo reynreynsanay

[PanSomaliNationalist]

I wanna know how to say hello I don't mind saying fadlan tbh but not having our own greeting kinda messed up. like how did they greet eachother before islam

Ma nabadaa

(Insert time of day) wanaagsan e.g. habeen wanaagsaan

Or just haalooow

ohhh ok

[Macarons]

raali is an arabic word as well. Our language is full of borrowed words..we were probably just as lazy about language as are about our food.

Raali is Arabic?. Do you have an example?

[Vivacious]

There is no somali word for happiness either only sadness.

Bashbash/reynreyn?

Waan bashbashanay iyo reynreynsanay

Not sure about the way you put it. But these two words mean farxad, no?

[Shirib]

There is no somali word for happiness either only sadness.

farxad?

[X.Playa]

farxad is loan from the Arabic Farxa meaning happiness .

[X.Playa]

Somali language lack a lot of basic things like for example the color blue despite the entire sky been blue most of the time , but we have words for snow!!! baraf , also Somali is probably the only language a child would call his parents aabo/hooy and the parents answer back aabo/hooyo

[Cherine]

Raali is not Arabic, metamorphosis i think you're mistaken. I also know for a fact that in hindi & urdu and probably in a lot of the regional languages there... baraf means ice/snow.