What is the Somali word for RESPECT

[Keyse_0208]

Sir Luggoyo,

What is the Somali word for Xasiid ?

Bakhayl

[Sir-Luggoyo]

Cis

Voltage

That is Arabic too

Keyse

Bakhayl is Arabic too

[Voltage]

Sir Luggoyo,

What is the Somali word for Xasiid ?

Bakhayl

Bakhayl = greedy

[Voltage]

Cis

Voltage

That is Arabic too

Proof it.

[Keyse_0208]

Bakhayl = greedy

dee waa isla xagiiyuun

[FHA1223]

Bakhyl is Arabic

[Sir-Luggoyo]

Allah Cazza wa Jalla

[AbdiWahab252]

Hmmm.... So it is true, Somalis were not xasiid until the Arabs taught us it

[ToughGong]

Is it true there isn't a Somali word that begins with the letter "KH" as in khalad

I mean original Somali

[Voltage]

Cazza in Arabic means mighty, not respect. Cis in Somali is respect. Somali and Arabic are both Afro-Asiatic languages and both languages have indigenous use of pharyngeal stops such as C. Is Coon Arabic? Is ciidan Arabic? Is colka Arabic? It is your own limitations of understanding your own language that made you mistake Cis for Cazza in another related languages simply because of the similarity of "c" which is native to both languages and not borrowed from Arabic as some Somalis believe.

Cis is Somali.

[Sir-Luggoyo]

Is it true there isn't a Somali word that begins with the letter "KH" as in khalad

I mean original Somali

That is right, and there is no Somali word that ends with "K"



Btw, Bakhayl in Somali is Gacan adayg

[zulaika]

its not just the somali language that borrows words....a lot of english words originate from french, italian or greek, so what's the fuss here....i am quite happy to adopt foreign words that find home in our language.

[Voltage]

Is it true there isn't a Somali word that begins with the letter "KH" as in khalad

I mean original Somali

Khaniis, khatar

[BlackVelvet]

^^^ just found out today that 'ananas' is italian

[Navy9]

That is right, and there is no Somali word that ends with "K"

Gerenuk
Somali word which the English use!