Have you personally ever been called FAQASH?

[GENERAL_SNM]

I'm wondering in what sort of situation has this word been used if ever against you..

Btw, I know the Marexaan section would be best for this question but they hardly ever interact with iidoors. Allah saved them from that humiliation.

[Hyperactive]

i thought was simply means people who worked with ziyad's bare's government.

why would i called that by some one?

[ToughGong]

hyperactive"]i thought was simply means people who worked with ziyad's bare's government.
why would i called that by some one?

You're either faqash by birth or faqash by assocation

[Hyperactive]

lol then i dont understand what it means for others.

i always thought that people who were ziyad bare's supporters or work for him. which is i never associate my self with that government.
in kaston kaba hadlin ba, because i know in laku kala dimanayo.

ashkhaasta kama ba hadklo to be honest with you, specially with somalis. it always took it as qabiil and people will take it , you offended what they stand for.

[Faranacab]

Yesterday :

Faqash = Siyad Bare

Dhabar macaan = Faroole

Qudhmis = Siilanyo

Huush = Riyale

Qadaad weyn = Ali mahdi

Dervish = Sayid Mohammed

Sii galbeed = Ogadeen

Si galbeed khamiis dhashay = Sherif

Sii galbeed Jimce dhashay = Sheekhaal


Today:

Ahlusuna Wal jameeca = Bare Hiiraale

Pirates = Faroole

Secessionist = Silanyo

Shabaab = Abu mansuur

Hisbul Islaam = Dahir Aweys

TFG = Sharif

ONLF = Admiral M. Omar Ismaan

Same faces, but more civilized principles.

[ToughGong]

hyper
Waar waan kugu ciyaaraya e you're right
It was to do with the followers of that regime

[Hyperactive]

Faranacab inader wamahay wahad so qortay?lol

seemeyer, it's fine to learn what others use for these terms.lol

[Faranacab]

Faranacab inader wamahay wahad so qortay?lol

seemeyer, it's fine to learn what others use for these terms.lol

Just wanted to give a full perspective of the Somali civil war with out using clan names. Some of the terms could be misplaced. But that is what Somalis call each other.

Inta aan hilmaamay ( sida gudhuu etc) ,,, Generalka ayaa ku dari...

[Teeri]

I'm wondering in what sort of situation has this word been used if ever against you..

Btw, I know the Marexaan section would be best for this question but they hardly ever interact with iidoors. Allah saved them from that humiliation.

I have my Idoor friends call me fagash, but its seen as a joke. all seen as a humourous banter nickname, like calling an english persona pommy. somehow all my idoor friends also call us ''xamari'' anyone from the south to them is xamary, but then its usually the younger ones who dont distinguish us and just label us as such.

even though the idoors refered to anyone in Barre's governemnt as fagash, the original term means a soldier with the famous long black military boots. hence when Barre was fighting the idoor rebells, you lot would see plenty of them boots in hargeysa, thus the word simply means long black boots but became a nickname for any soldier under the government, but the idoors stuck the name to the Daroods since most of the army and governmental ministers were that of the Ogaden, Dhulbanate and Merehans.

I know the Idoors accept that name onlt from the Ogadens, but i have noticed others, like the MJs usually call you guys ''Galdaan'' anyone care to explain to me what it exactly means and where it came from?

[GENERAL_SNM]

honestly I have never in my life been called Iidoor and have only heard the term Qaldaan used once from a Hawiye chick to one of my cousin. She had no clue me and the qaldaan were related and he wanted to kll her but I had other plans and couldn't let a word like qaldaan ruin my plans.

Teeri, I think the term faqash means a piglet and is generally used towards Ogadeen/Dhulabhnte/Marexaan and not Majerteen as they are classed by us as part of Hawiye.

[ToughGong]

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Some say like teri said the word "faqash" was the sound those boots made when traversing across a muddy battlefield

Others say like GSNM said the word comes from the Russian word for a piglet and was imported back into the vocabulary of the milatary by Isaq officers who had trained in the former Soviet Union and had then joined the SNM

[abdalla11]

I know the Idoors accept that name onlt from the Ogadens, but i have noticed others, like the MJs usually call you guys ''Galdaan'' anyone care to explain to me what it exactly means and where it came from?

Qaldaan means qof oo qaldan, their speech is weird. For example if they want to say 'come down' 'normal somalis would say soo deg' the qaldaans say soo dhaadhac 'come fall down'

[ToughGong]

I know the Idoors accept that name onlt from the Ogadens, but i have noticed others, like the MJs usually call you guys ''Galdaan'' anyone care to explain to me what it exactly means and where it came from?

Qaldaan means qof oo qaldan, their speech is weird. For example if they want to say 'come down' 'normal somalis would say soo deg' the qaldaans say soo dhaadhac 'come fall down'

Soo dhac-fall down (never used 'cos it's stupid)
Soo dhaadhac climb down
We also say soo dag
Or soo daadag

[Hyperactive]

qof walba qof ka kale accent kesa o qaldan.

i remember first time i heard word aboowe, i thought this somali girl was insulting me, i kept walking , and she keep running after me saying aboowe, do you know this street.

i noticed all she was asking me street name. then i saw it people writing in somalinet.

i hope this wont take it in wrong way: MJ and marehan i thought they were haweyah until i learned my cousins were marehan and they're not hawhyah.

[Teeri]

qof walba qof ka kale accent kesa o qaldan.

i remember first time i heard word aboowe, i thought this somali girl was insulting me, i kept walking , and she keep running after me saying aboowe, do you know this street.

i noticed all she was asking me street name. then i saw it people writing in somalinet.

i hope this wont take it in wrong way: MJ and marehan i thought they were haweyah until i learned my cousins were marehan and they're not hawhyah.

i know lots of idoors who get offended when u say aboowe, since i am from kismayo, saying it is easy, where as an Ogaden galti would say huuno and a a reer waamo and sujui would say ''gacal'', cadeeye etc. but then, i find walal a bit too formal,

To be honest, the average idoors never knew anything about Mjs and MR untill the war started.

they hardly didn't know haweeyes either as you guys are miles aprt from these guys. they were only aware of obviously ogadens who share borders with practically every somali group from Djabouti to the Dagodi's in western wajir and of course the dhulbahante and the warsengali who live with u as neighbours.