How do reer waqooyi/non southerners say these words.

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Tramo

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fork = shookad (yes, really)
Bra = keeshili
Lawyer - difaac? :sheed:
Tie - nigteen
Cake - I just know doolsho which I'm fairly certain is a southern word
Towel - tuwaal
Cheese - idk
Steak - there's a word for this?
Hairdresser - timo jaro:lol:
Celebration - ciid
the ones that get me are madbakh = kitchen, maclaqad = spoon and madaybad = bowl, I always laugh when my grandma says these :lol: . southern Somali is so much more practical and sounds better imo
 

Waranle

Top Mali in the 6ix
the ones that get me are madbakh = kitchen, maclaqad = spoon and madaybad = bowl, I always laugh when my grandma says these :lol: . southern Somali is so much more practical and sounds better imo
All three of those reer woqooyi words are originally Arabic thats why.
 

John Michael

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lol

Thx, I like burcad.
All of those words I listed in the south are Italian (or at least I don't know the somali equivalent). It's interesting how the North doesn't use English loanwords that much but instead uses Arabic.
 

Baraf

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fork -Fargeti
Bra- Rajasteeno
Lawyer- ?..marqaad?.. like marqaadi noqo ( be my witness)
Tie-?
Cake- Doorsha
Towel - Shuukoman
Cheese- ? (is there even a Somali word for Cheese)
Steak- ?
Hairdresser- ?.. timo subiis, timo qurxiyaad
Celebration- ?

 
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Bahal

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Lawyer is garxajis I think, I like that pure Somali.

Most words that trip people up are bastardized Italian and English like doolshe nigis tuwaal shukuman. Waqooyi got more Arabic loanwords like malqacad whereas others use the Somali word qaado. Then there's maay :ftw9nwa:
 

Zuleikha

Ha igu daalinee dantaada raac
Fork fargeeto
Bra geeshali
Lawyer qareen
Tie
Cake keek
Towel tuwaal
Cheese
Steak
Hairdresser koofeer
Celebration dabaal deg
 

Zuleikha

Ha igu daalinee dantaada raac
She said reer Waqooyi not reer konfureed :lol: we don't use shukumaan or rajabeeto tf is that :lol:.
 
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