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Is there a Somali Word for Cancer?

Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 8:09 am

by Grant

Re: Is there a Somali Word for Cancer?

Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 8:15 am

by thehappyone

kaanserka

Re: Is there a Somali Word for Cancer?

Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 8:18 am

by Grant

That's obviously adapted English.

Is there any older term?

Re: Is there a Somali Word for Cancer?

Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 8:19 am

by thehappyone

cudur

Re: Is there a Somali Word for Cancer?

Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 8:21 am

by Grant

That's just an illness.

Re: Is there a Somali Word for Cancer?

Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 8:23 am

by blizzard90

xaanun Alan lag a bogsan

Re: Is there a Somali Word for Cancer?

Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 8:24 am

by Grant

Translate please.

Re: Is there a Somali Word for Cancer?

Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 8:25 am

by TheGrumpyGeeljire

A disease that never cures.

Re: Is there a Somali Word for Cancer?

Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 8:27 am

by blizzard90

since people in Somalia don't get cancer we dont have a word for it. so xanuun aan laga bogsan means a deadly sickness

Re: Is there a Somali Word for Cancer?

Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 8:27 am

by Mrkutiiriye

In Somali they call it MenaceToSociety

Re: Is there a Somali Word for Cancer?

Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 8:35 am

by Grant

http://rrp.cancer.gov/programsResources ... omalia.pdf

http://www.hpvcentre.net/statistics/reports/SOM_FS.pdf

Sadly, there's lots of cancer in Somalia.

It looks like the literature is using the English "kansar".

http://www.cancervic.org.au/languages/somali

Re: Is there a Somali Word for Cancer?

Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 8:44 am

by waraabe251

saradan which is arabic

Re: Is there a Somali Word for Cancer?

Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 8:50 am

by Anarchist

Somalis used to refer to cancer as furuq and it was far more widespread than most people were aware of.

Re: Is there a Somali Word for Cancer?

Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 8:50 am

by Anarchist

d/p

Re: Is there a Somali Word for Cancer?

Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 9:09 am

by gulaid111

Kud