Are their Hindi loanwords in Somali ?

[embarassing]

In Somali it has nothing to do with steam/trains/vapour its just a regular car.

 

[ሕጊ።።]

Hmm I may have confused you with another Ethiopian user...

I don't think so, the other's a female, and the other literally has a fight every day.

That seems like a bit of a stretch

The French/Italian part? I know babur is obviously a loanword because Amharic wouldn't really have it's own word for train, and it's from Arabic I am guessing.
The French/Italian part I don't really know, but with French pronunciation it would sound close. We also normally substitute 'b' for 'v' in these languages.

Edit
Means car in Somali, thought it meant train like us

 

[ሕጊ።።]

In Somali it has nothing to do with steam/trains/vapour its just a regular car.

Oh right, with us it means train, maybe it's different then.

 

[xisaabiye]

I don't think so, the other's a female, and the other literally has a fight every day.

The French/Italian part? I know babur is obviously a loanword because Amharic wouldn't really have it's own word for train, and it's from Arabic I am guessing.
The French/Italian part I don't really know, but with French pronunciation it would sound close. We also normally substitute 'b' for 'v' in these languages.

Arabs don't call a train baabuur, the root word for train in arabic is three letter qaaf taa & raa.
Also if they did in the past, it still doesn't relate at all. We refer to all automobiles(trains, planes, cars etc) collectively as gaadiid

In somali we have words like fiiq, diiq, jiir, cir that are all used in arabic with different meaning. It's just the letters & vowel movements of the languages are the same that's why you find the similar words

 

[ሕጊ።።]

Arabs don't call a train baabuur, the root word for train in arabic is three letter qaaf taa & raa.
Also if they did in the past, it still doesn't relate at all. We refer to all automobiles(trains, planes, cars etc) collectively as gaadiid

In somali we have words like fiiq, diiq, jiir, cir that are all used in arabic with different meaning. It's just the letters & vowel movements of the languages are the same that's why you find the similar words

I edited my post

 

[ሕጊ።።]

@xisaabiye Also this https://www.almaany.com/en/dict/ar-en/train/ gives 'babur' as one of the Arabic words for 'train'. It is dialectal according to other sites and not the standard.

 

[embarassing]

Is there a Somali word for train?

 

[xisaabiye]

Is there a Somali word for train?

Let us reach that stage I came up with a word few years ago Digdigleh( moves in haste) . Waryaadha degdeglayda hala iijoojiyo


When the darawiish were airbombed by the english they used to call a plane shimbir...It sounds funny when you think about it, but today we call it diyaarad which is arabic for plane whose root word in arabic is also bird . We should go back to calling it shimbir

 

[xisaabiye]

@xisaabiye Also this https://www.almaany.com/en/dict/ar-en/train/ gives 'babur' as one of the Arabic words for 'train'. It is dialectal according to other sites and not the standard.

Almaany like many translation sites is a weird site. It's also giving silsila which means a chain & musalsal which means a series, usually used for a series of drama shows kkkk

 

[embarassing]

Let us reach that stage I came up with a word few years ago Digdigleh( moves in haste) . Waryaadha degdeglayda hala iijoojiyo


When the darawiish were airbombed by the english they used to call a plane shimbir...It sounds funny when you think about it, but today we call it diyaarad which is arabic for plane whose root word in arabic is also bird . We should go back to calling it shimbir

I agree, I prefer indigenous names like shimbir over diyaarad.

I looked up the Somali word for train on google translate and got tareenka

 

[ሕጊ።።]

Almaany like many translation sites is a weird site. It's also giving silsila which means a chain & musalsal which means a series, usually used for a series of drama shows kkkk

It's probably giving dialectal translations too that's why, it essentially means steam (and engine in Tunisian Arabic, and train in Moroccan etc.)

 

[Lady Whistledown]

"haa" is yes in both in Hindi and Somali I believe. Or was it Urdu?

 

[Malikfiqi]

gaadee ( Car )


Roti ( Bread ?)

Jabati(Indian flatbread)

 

[embarassing]

Jabati(Indian flatbread)

Is that the same thing as Sabayad?

 

[MARAQ DIGAAG]

"haa" is yes in both in Hindi and Somali I believe. Or was it Urdu?

But that is just a coincidence .


Anyone interested in this kind of thing have a look a the book below . It Discusses the use of loan words in Somali , Oromo and Zwahili .

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id...F#v=onepage&q=loanwords oromo zwahili&f=false

 

[Merchant of Mogadishu]

I agree, I prefer indigenous names like shimbir over diyaarad.

I looked up the Somali word for train on google translate and got tareenka

We don't even have an indigenous word for the colour blue!

 

[Merchant of Mogadishu]

It just shows how important Somalia was as a trade hub for thousands of years tbh.

 

[Malikfiqi]

Is that the same thing as Sabayad?

Yeah

 

[arawelo 2.0]

I was never gone

So you’ve been lurking and secretly watching everyone without posting

 

[ሕጊ።።]

So you’ve been lurking and secretly watching everyone without posting

I was posting as well, just not as often:siilaanyosmile:.

I was only gone for 1 month in summer for holiday.