Somali Arabic Loan words. List them.

[LiquidHYDROGEN]

Those who knew the somali spoken deep in the miyi or baadiye didn't mix arabic and somali at least the ones who knew both languages like my grandfather. He AUN didnt like mixing two languages together. A lot of us who believe that somali is mainly arabic dont know enough somali to back up their claim. Somali is a much deeper language and is not limited to the words you are used to hearing. In boorama they had this somali dhaqan class and the teacher gave everyone a vocab quiz. It was a hundered question and I got a 13 percent. I didn't feel bad since reading somali was hard for me back then but niggas who were born and bread in somali countries where getting 20 and 30 percent. The highest score was 50 out of the high school kids. The highest grade from the adults was 83. Somali is a vast and beautiful language and is slowly being lost.

I agree. We need a ministry of Somali language to help preserve it. And instead of having foreign loan-words we can invent a somali word for it.

[TheLoFather]

Those who knew the somali spoken deep in the miyi or baadiye didn't mix arabic and somali at least the ones who knew both languages like my grandfather. He AUN didnt like mixing two languages together. A lot of us who believe that somali is mainly arabic dont know enough somali to back up their claim. Somali is a much deeper language and is not limited to the words you are used to hearing. In boorama they had this somali dhaqan class and the teacher gave everyone a vocab quiz. It was a hundered question and I got a 13 percent. I didn't feel bad since reading somali was hard for me back then but niggas who were born and bread in somali countries where getting 20 and 30 percent. The highest score was 50 out of the high school kids. The highest grade from the adults was 83. Somali is a vast and beautiful language and is slowly being lost.

I agree. We need a ministry of Somali language to help preserve it. And instead of having foreign loan-words we can invent a somali word for it.

There is No need to invent new somali words (except for words for technology) there are plenty they just need to be excavated out of the hole.

[MidriGeez]

Those who knew the somali spoken deep in the miyi or baadiye didn't mix arabic and somali at least the ones who knew both languages like my grandfather. He AUN didnt like mixing two languages together. A lot of us who believe that somali is mainly arabic dont know enough somali to back up their claim. Somali is a much deeper language and is not limited to the words you are used to hearing. In boorama they had this somali dhaqan class and the teacher gave everyone a vocab quiz. It was a hundered question and I got a 13 percent. I didn't feel bad since reading somali was hard for me back then but niggas who were born and bread in somali countries where getting 20 and 30 percent. The highest score was 50 out of the high school kids. The highest grade from the adults was 83. Somali is a vast and beautiful language and is slowly being lost.

Nah it will never be lost...Somali is almost the same as Afar and Saho language. These 3 are considered to have been parted from a single Mother tongue, and that mother tongue is believed to be the oldest langauge in east africa, Older than oromo and even Beja. If it hasn't been lost in the last 10,000 years i doubt it will now.

[mcali]

I never said it will be lost but that our current generation are not as well learned in somali as the previous generations. Not even us qurba joog but the people living in somali speaking areas are lacking in the somali language. Especially a lot of people coming from Djibouti are terrible when it comes to af somali. With reer djubuti there is two cases. This little girl who was like 6 who was speaking somali like a 40 year old women which was extremely funny and then there is those who mix somali french and arabic and alot of there convo is hard to keep up with.

[DisplacedDiraac]

70%+ of the somali language is arabic.

Swalahi is like 40% Arabic, i doubt Somali is more than 25% Arabic.
According to alot of elders Maymay is the real Af Somali and there's hardly any arabic loan words in that dialect

Means= Yaéni????

Somalis dont use this word.. The only ones who use this word are the ones from Arab countries..
I personally hate hearing the word used within a Somali sentence!

[Alchemist]

70%+ of the somali language is arabic.

Swalahi is like 40% Arabic, i doubt Somali is more than 25% Arabic.
According to alot of elders Maymay is the real Af Somali and there's hardly any arabic loan words in that dialect

Means= Yaéni????

Somalis dont use this word.. The only ones who use this word are the ones from Arab countries..
I personally hate hearing the word used within a Somali sentence!

Yaeni Lool.

[DisplacedDiraac]

At least you didn't use it within a Somali context..

[madara]

France has a group of intellectuals inventing words for anything new. They despise adopting words from English.

[Saraxnow]

Whats wrong with Yacni? I am pretty sure its not just those from Arab countries that use it.

Spoon= Malqacad which in Arabic is actually Malcaqa
Chair=Kursi

There are many English loan-words too

[Alchemist]

At least you didn't use it within a Somali context..

Can you teach me yacni teach me somali lol I your right that is annoying.

[2ndtoNone]

Whats wrong with Yacni? I am pretty sure its not just those from Arab countries that use it.

Spoon= Malqacad which in Arabic is actually Malcaqa
Chair=Kursi

There are many English loan-words too

most somalis use somali words for the above 2 things

spoon = qaato
chair == kambadh

[Saraxnow]

Whats wrong with Yacni? I am pretty sure its not just those from Arab countries that use it.

Spoon= Malqacad which in Arabic is actually Malcaqa
Chair=Kursi

There are many English loan-words too

most somalis use somali words for the above 2 things

spoon = qaato
chair == kambadh

No Qaado/Qaato is used in the south

And Qambadh is not a chair its a wood stool

[DisplacedDiraac]

Whats wrong with Yacni? I am pretty sure its not just those from Arab countries that use it.

It just sounds wrong when used in Af Soomali..

Paper = Waarqad
Door = Albaab

[2ndtoNone]

Whats wrong with Yacni? I am pretty sure its not just those from Arab countries that use it.

It just sounds wrong when used in Af Soomali..

Paper = Waarqad
Door = Albaab

paper = Xaashi
door = Irrid / Kidhin

saraxnow, sxb qaato is pur somali and is used all over the horn where somalis live. and as for kambadh yes it is a stool but also the word is used for chair but is not as popular as 'kursi'

[Saraxnow]

Whats wrong with Yacni? I am pretty sure its not just those from Arab countries that use it.

It just sounds wrong when used in Af Soomali..

Paper = Waarqad
Door = Albaab