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Names like Ducaale and Sharmarke combined a Somali prefix or suffix with Arabic, namely duca and shar in this context: I would still say these are Somali names since no other community has these names. I would include names cibaado and Canab because Arabs don’t use these as names.

Arabs themselves have names which they consider as being of non Arab originally. Now the pronunciation of these names is Arabised and different from the original (some prophetic names are a good example).
 
Names like Ducaale and Sharmarke combined a Somali prefix or suffix with Arabic, namely duca and shar in this context: I would still say these are Somali names since no other community has these names. I would include names cibaado and Canab because Arabs don’t use these as names.

Arabs themselves have names which they consider as being of non Arab originally. Now the pronunciation of these names is Arabised and different from the original (some prophetic names are a good example).
Sharmarke is ethnic Somali name as it is certainly not Arabic at all
 
You need to go back and read what I wrote. Stop the mad mullah linguistic extremism stuff. I wrote some words combine a Somali suffix or prefix with an Arabic word like Shar or duca to make Somali names. No one said sharmarke isn’t an indigenous Somali name.,

let me use an Arabic word to describe him, he is Jaahil
 
Guled, jimcale, samatar, burale, rooble, warfa, ismahan, ladan, sagal, liban, gacal, ayan, ayanle, ciige, cigale, kenadiid, jawahir, foos, xawo, ubax, hibaq, waris, odowa, xirsi, idil, deeqa, hodan….
 

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Names like Ducaale and Sharmarke combined a Somali prefix or suffix with Arabic, namely duca and shar in this context: I would still say these are Somali names since no other community has these names. I would include names cibaado and Canab because Arabs don’t use these as names.

Arabs themselves have names which they consider as being of non Arab originally. Now the pronunciation of these names is Arabised and different from the original (some prophetic names are a good example).
I fully agree. No one says 'Jean' isn't a French name because it's the same name as the English 'John' or the Scandinavian 'Johan'.

Any 'Somalised' Arabic words/names are Somali names. But 'Maxamed' and 'Maxmoud' are still Arabic in my mind lol
 

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