Somali word for bread

[MR.𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘]

The Somali word for bread in Somali is kibis

 

[Haragwaafi]

Uhmm no it's Roodhi or as I grew up to say Cayiish

 

[Internet Nomad]

Uhmm no it's Roodhi or as I grew up to say Cayiish

Roodhi is indian in origin

 

[Al Adnani]

Kibis comes from the root word khubz which is Arabic for bread. In my house we call bread ceesh or 3eish which is another Arabic word for bread, Yemenis use 3eish as well whereas khubz is used by Egyptians and levantines. I suspect we adopted khubz from the *short* Egyptian involvement in waqooyi whereas ceesh from Somalis that frequented Aden

 

[hinters]

Rooti.

 

[xiin-finiin.]

i have heard both furin and rooti/roodhi used.

 

[Cartan Boos]

cayiish is the somali version

 

[Basra]

 

[NidarNidar]

We call it furin in the north.

 

[Al Adnani]

We call it furin in the north.

No we don’t. We say ceesh or kibis

 

[Sigmundd]

We call it furin in the north.

since when? I'm a lander and I never heard of that word. More like roodhi.

 

[NidarNidar]

since when? I'm a lander and I never heard of that word. More like roodhi.

Maybe you don't but I do, Its also used in Djibouti.

 

[Haragwaafi]

Maybe you don't but I do, Its also used in Djibouti.

Have you been or lived in SL ? Cu I never heard of that word being used

 

[Zkr]

Rooti.

 

[Yaraye]

Is it not Rooti?

 

[cooli3o]

Is it not Rooti?

are we indian now?

 

[Yaraye]

are we indian now?

I grew up saying that, is it not somali?!

 

[cooli3o]

I grew up saying that, is it not somali?!

It is but every time I go on this forum I feel like the half the language is other peoples language

 

[hinters]

are we indian now?

Every few months Somalispot rediscovers the apparently impossible incomprehensible fact that loanwords in fact do exist.

 

[NidarNidar]

Have you been or lived in SL ? Cu I never heard of that word being used

I've only lived in Awdal and also Diridhaba but that was when I was 4 or younger, we use Furinka instead of Rooti in my house, not sure if it's old Somali word, I know it isn't oromo, amharic, Arabic or Hindi.