Somali-Arab Culture

[waranlee]

You can love it or hate it but there is no fucking denying that some of Somali culture is heavily influenced by Arab culture, especially Yemeni.
Get ready for a trigger fest.



This is the former Somali president wearing daily cultural clothes praying

This is the former Yemeni President Wearing daily cultural clothes Praying

This is the inside of a Somali household

This is the inside of a Yemeni household

This is a Somali incense burner

This is a Yemeni incense burner

Farmaajo look alike in Mogadishu oo khad ku qayilooyo (Sitting on Arab furniture)

Yemeni men chewing khat (Same furniture)

the architecture (Old city of Aden)

Old city of Merka

 

[waranlee]

The Somali language has even developed to contain so many Arabic loan words that it's over the thousands. Here are just a few
300 Arabic Loan Verbs in Somali | Liban Ahmad - Academia.edu

You can even construct Somali sentences with nothing but Arabic loan words.



Of coarse Somalis have their own culture of food, attire, dance and language. But considering. Somalis are right next to the Arab world, and have been trading with them for centuries. Of coarse it is without a doubt that Somali culture and way of life was influenced by them, and it doesn't matter how much that triggers you.

Try to maintain control of the triggered filled anger and respond with common sense and civility

 

[Prince of Lasanod]

We have a lot in common culturally with Arabs, not really surprising.

 

[CanadianQueen]

Yemenis copied us.

 

[--Ajakis Lax Max--]

you speak nothing but the truth, we even shoot into the air to celebrate. due to our harsh desert like enviroment we have developed the same mentality as the beduin arabs. not surprised

 

[waranlee]

Yemenis copied us.

 

[Lord Flacko]

The Macawiis the Yemenis got from us (and we most likely got it from Indonesia).

Two random pics of furniture doesn't mean jack shit and an incense burner is just a fucking single incense burner. And again the Yemenis got it from us considering Frankincense has been cultivated in the Horn for thousands of years, dating back to atleast the times of Punt. And also 85% of the world's Frankincense comes from Somalia.

Both of your pics of incense burners are of the Somali dabqaad.

The dabqaad (Somali for "fire raiser"), also known as unsi or girgire, is an incense burner, or censer. With either one or two handles, it is commonly used in Somalia, Djibouti, Yemen(south), and Ethiopia.

It's not Arabian, and the Yemenis got it from us. Most non-Yemeni Arabs use this ugly little thing

 

[CanadianQueen]

Plot twist

Fadhi carabeed is called fadhi al Somal in Yemen

 

[Lord Flacko]

The Somali language has even developed to contain so many Arabic loan words that it's over the thousands. Here are just a few
300 Arabic Loan Verbs in Somali | Liban Ahmad - Academia.edu

You can even construct Somali sentences with nothing but Arabic loan words.



Of coarse Somalis have their own culture of food, attire, dance and language. But considering. Somalis are right next to the Arab world, and have been trading with them for centuries. Of coarse it is without a doubt that Somali culture and way of life was influenced by them, and it doesn't matter how much that triggers you.

Try to maintain control of the triggered filled anger and respond with common sense and civility

Persian has over 3 times as many Arabic loan words as Somali and they also use the Arabic script. Try telling them they're culturally Arab though

 

[SOMALI GENERAL]

Persian has over 3 times as many Arabic loan words as Somali and they also use the Arabic script. Try telling them they're culturally Arab though

The persians have it worse than us, but at least the Iranians know who they are & would never beg to arabs like how some Somalis do.

 

[Burhan]

We should not confuse cultural overlap with ethnicity. We are not Arabs but we share culture with them due to proximity and religion. We are both nomadic people, people of the desert.


Somalis always wore two pieces of clothing pre-islam(two blankets) like ancient Greeks. Does that make them Greeks? Of course not. What people oppose is the claim that Somalis are arabs. It is offensive to anyone who is Somali and doesn't have an arab mother(that Somali with the arab mother can claim to be half arab rightfully).

It is very offensive to claim you are an arab when you are not and you speak as a Somali on behalf of Somalis. That is the beef.

 

[waranlee]

The Macawiis the Yemenis got from us (and we most likely got it from Indonesia).

Two random pics of furniture doesn't mean jack shit and an incense burner is just a fucking single incense burner. And again the Yemenis got it from us considering Frankincense has been cultivated in the Horn for thousands of years, dating back to atleast the times of Punt. And also 85% of the world's Frankincense comes from Somalia.

And both of your pics of incense burners are of the Somali dabqaad. It's not Arabian, and the Yemenis got it from us. Most non-Yemeni Arabs use this ugly little thing View attachment 13231

Yes hey got everything from Somalis, You sound fucking retarded. First the incest burners are not both somali, I got the Yemeni one from here Research — Hambaloozi A yemeni blog post. Second that incest burner is just a modern one and it's also in Somalia.
"Two random pics of furniture doesn't mean jack shit". That's what the inside of a typical Somali household looks like and they did get it from the Yemenis.

You can get triggered all you like but your culture is heavily influenced by harry Arabs

 

[waranlee]

We should not confuse cultural overlap with ethnicity. We are not Arabs but we share culture with them due to proximity and religion. We are both nomadic people, people of the desert.


Somalis always wore two pieces of clothing pre-islam(two blankets) like Greeks. Does that make them Greeks? Of course not. What people oppose is the claim that Somalis are arabs. It is offensive to anyone who is Somali and doesn't have an arab mother.

The persians have it worse than us, but at least the Iranians know who they are & would never beg to arabs like how some Somalis do.

No one is denying that Somalis are their own people but just that they have a lot of Yemeni culture, you seem to understand the culture is very similar, but this bloke @Prince of Hobyo is so in denial about this fact

Persian has over 3 times as many Arabic loan words as Somali and they also use the Arabic script. Try telling them they're culturally Arab though

 

[The Ash'ari]

 

[The Ash'ari]

Our people

 

[SOMALI GENERAL]

 

[Lord Flacko]

Yes hey got everything from Somalis, You sound fucking retarded. First the incest burners are not both somali, I got the Yemeni one from here Research — Hambaloozi A yemeni blog post. Second that incest burner is just a modern one and it's also in Somalia.
"Two random pics of furniture doesn't mean jack shit". That's what the inside of a typical Somali household looks like and they did get it from the Yemenis.

You can get triggered all you like but your culture is heavily influenced by harry Arabs

lol the Yemenis got the dabqaad from us.

The dabqaad (Somali for "fire raiser"), also known as unsi or girgire, is an incense burner, or censer. With either one or two handles, it is commonly used in Somalia, Djibouti, Yemen(south), and Ethiopia.

Why are you so mad? Both of those incense burners are of the Somali kind which is also used by South Yemenis.


That furniture is mostly regional, and not Arabic or Yemeni in origin.

 

[Lord Flacko]

Somalis are Arabs *shows a Somali incense burner, an Southeast Asian macawiis and a pic of furniture*

 

[Burhan]

No one is denying that Somalis are their own people but just that they have a lot of Yemeni culture, you seem to understand the culture is very similar, but this bloke @Prince of Hobyo is so in denial about this fact

Yemenis were part of the Aksum Kingdom and the guy who ruled yemen and the Yemenis around the Prophet's birth was Abraha the Habash. Most of them Yemenis are dark and have similar lineage to many east Africans. Ironically, they were considered the true Arabs. Arabs were dvided into two: The Arabs and The Arabized. The Descendants of Prophet Ishmael are Arabized and Quraysh are among those descendants while Yemenis are their own set of Original Arabs.

Anyway, being arab can be subjective sometimes and one only needs speak the Arabic language as a first language to qualify being Arab, such as the Sudanese dark Africans. And funny enough, Somalis fail to qualifiy even for that category of being Arab for lacking Arabic mastery as a first language


Something sad for some to be obsessed with ethnicity they are not. I am cool with defending all things Arab as brothers both in religion and culture. We just need to clarify the distinction between them and Somalis ethnically. Arabs are the people who would understand a Somali person perfectly for our close cultural relationship.

It is obvious:

- We speak Somali
- We look distinctly Somali
- We fail to blend in as black arabs because our language would betray us and we are Ajamis(non Arabic speaking people).

 

[The Ash'ari]