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BlackVelvet wrote:Twist oops let's pretend that didn't happen lol

yungnfresh wrote:"far ma lagu geliyay?" means "are you educated?"

For real?

Someone asks you that and you'll say "yeah I've got a degree, Kanada aa far i galisey"?

LOOOOOOOOOL!

Twist, yeah I know, Lillahiya waa wasaqad

Cali Gaab, same shit different toilet

BV, that would be correct, but I'd never say that

I would ask my parents but that is too dodgy, I don't believe you guys ----> Markacadeey: Far = send a message

http://www.markacadey.net/main/portal/d ... icle_id=59

BlackVelvet wrote:

I would ask my parents but that is too dodgy, I don't believe you guys ----> Markacadeey: Far = send a message

http://www.markacadey.net/main/portal/d ... icle_id=59

I get your reaction and skepticism, I myself almost fought the first person who asked me hadii far la i geliyay But it legit means "info", which is what a message is right?

Lillaahiya wrote:

Far is a verb, when it's a noun it means finger and when it is fariin is when it becomes a noun again. Lakin far alone is not info, you should have punched the person who asked

But to settle it once and for all we should as a student of language, if they agree that it could have that meaning then waan ku rumeysanaa

Just realised rumeysanaa - rumey means brush, so if someone breaks up this word and makes up a context I could be telling you I will use you as a toothbrush.

In linguistics, a homonym is, in the strict sense, one of a group of words that share the same spelling and the same pronunciation but have different meanings.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homonym

Some homonyms in Somali:

Far = finger
Far = courier (with message)
Far = script

gal = enter
gal = outer (skin)

gar = beard
gar = settle/rectify

caasi = disobedient
caasi = taxi

cad = light
cad = piece of

buur = mountain/hill
buur = fat person

etc etc

The`Republic wrote:gal = stranger

You mean gaal?

BlackVelvet wrote:Far is a verb, when it's a noun it means finger and when it is fariin is when it becomes a noun again. Lakin far alone is not info, you should have punched the person who asked

But to settle it once and for all we should as a student of language, if they agree that it could have that meaning then waan ku rumeysanaa

Just realised rumeysanaa - rumey means brush, so if someone breaks up this word and makes up a context I could be telling you I will use you as a toothbrush.

Trust me, "far" in that sense is interchangeable with info, but we can wait for confirmation from a student of Somali so you can shake your head at that term

Yeah, thanks, made a mistake with that third one

I would take a course in SOAS - Somali language and literature, learn from an cadaan guy smh

Some more

Doox = valley
Doox = to cut open

Jir = skin
Jir = to live on

Duul = disreputable person
Duul = to fly

aas = to bury
aas = to pioneer

guur = marriage
guur = to move away

war = news
war = riverbed

tol = kinsmen
tol = to sew

xad = boundary
xad = to steal

wad = to drive/lead
wad = consequence

gaar = to reach
gaar = exclusive

^ would it be grammatically correct to say "beel beel" instead of "tol beel"?

Lol @ beel beel.

Beel = clan
Beel = to lose

yungnfresh wrote:^ would it be grammatically correct to say "beel beel" instead of "tol beel"?

Indeed it would, but it sounds weird.