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Octavius wrote:

YummyMummy wrote:

Octavius wrote:Yaa fasiri kara micnaha erayadan... I haven't a clue what they mean... it may even be the case that some are loan words from other languages.

taran - wixii badta (what increases)
taallo - shrines, to remember people by. Some are natural (e.g. on mountains)
cahdi - waqti wax la mid ah, an era, e.g. cahdigii rasuulka SCW
kaamil - wax dhameystiran
qowl - hadal. "muxuu ahaa qowlkii fulaan?"
maan - hamiga qofka ama rabitaanka, I think
taawi
tafatiir - qurub iyo qurub wax loo kala jarjarey (in small pieces)
haadi - Allah? He is the "Haadi" (one of the 99 names)
timin
murti - deep meaning or wisdom. I've always heard gabaygaasi waa mid murti badan
taar Telegraph
tix-raac
tix - ciida tixda ah ee badan ama tixda gabayga
tacliiq - comment. Like "Obama, what is your tacliiq on the latest developments in Russia?"
tafiir
asluub - manner in which something is done. Qof asluub badan waa qof akhlaaq leh.
talqiin
taxaab(neyn)
tiraab - a different way of saying "turaab" (sand)?
falal happenings, occurrences
tooje Used as a naaneys/nickname, don't know the meaning but have heard it
haldoor
tub A place
tarxeel - like the exodus of bani Israel, inaa dhulka lagaa eryo ("tarxiil")
dhalaan - "caruurtey labadaasi dhalaan"? Or wixi la dhalo
takhraar
tiiraanyo - sheeko dheer
hirtaanyo great anger
tiir Pillar
tiix
taag (u fidiyaan eh) make stand up, toosi
taako - the space between the tip of your middle finger and your thumb when you fully open your hand.. often used as unit of measurement back home
hur (wax u hur) Sacrifice
tamashley - to walk, in Somali "iska wareegaaleyso"
taxan in order, or in a row, or in sequence
aayo - isn't she gabadhuu adeerkaa qabo? could mean step mother, your uncle's wife or it could mean future - aayo hayaga ayaanu ka tashanaynaa
tahanbaab
timil
dabiq - copy it. "Dabbiq hadalkeyga sidaan kuugu sheegey"
tolmooni
tawaan
tab
xeesha
hal-karaanimo
qaab manner, form or method
tahdiid
taabaca - what follows. Rasuulka SCW kuwii taabacey waxaa loo bixiyey Al-Taabicuun
takoor - discrimination? Since Midab takoor means racism
toggo
san wanaagsan
gadhwadeen - leader (qofkaas baa u gadhwadeen ah
taam functioning well
tayo Quality... wax tayo daran
hinno
sama-tar wanaag tar... good-doer
tacbiir - to interpret something.
tacab Effort
tawaab - ajar in ad ka helshid? Like "camalkan ilaahay tawaabkiisa ha kuu qoro"
taban taabin - support & close monitoring/in laga war hayyo? "dadkani waxey u baahanyihiin taban taabin iyo wax tar"
hayin An animal of some kind
tiiq
togan
tooc