Stop calling your sons 'Cabdi'

[Boqorada]

also having the wrong female/male morphology. xamdi is a male form. xamdiyah is the female form. shukri is male form. and shukriyah is female form. for some reason only somalis get it wrong.

I love Shukri for a girl name, its unique.


We need more Aden or Adam names to replace all the ugly Abdis.

 

[Basra]

I love Shukri for a girl name, its unique.


We need more Aden or Adam names to replace all the ugly Abdis.

For girls best names are Maryam & Zaynab. Sahro/a Sarah?

 

[Boqorada]

For girls best names are Maryam & Zaynab. Sahro/a Sarah?

Beautiful names!

I also love Yasmine, Anisa,Asiyo,Sumaya,Samira, Alia etc. There are thousands of gorgeous girl names. It's so much more easier to find beautiful and unique girl names than boy.

 

[Lebron James]

Slave means abeed in Arabic how is the same as Abdi ?

 

[reer]

I love Shukri for a girl name, its unique.


We need more Aden or Adam names to replace all the ugly Abdis.

nacas. shukri is from arabic. its an arabic name. its a male name. shukriyah is the female form.

 

[Boqorada]

nacas. shukri is from arabic. its an arabic name. its a male name. shukriyah is the female form.

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Ok. And?

 

[Tambien]

nacas. shukri is from arabic. its an arabic name. its a male name. shukriyah is the female form.

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It can be unisex in Egypt, but yeah much more common in males

 

[Aurelian]

Cabdi doesn’t actually mean slave.

It means “my slave” in Arabic.

When you add an “i” to a word in Arabic, it becomes possessive.

Somalis are allowing people to call them “my slave”.

Arabs use o instead of i, so instead of Abdi it's abdo or abdah

 

[Gantaal97]

Cabdi doesn’t actually mean slave.

It means “my slave” in Arabic.

When you add an “i” to a word in Arabic, it becomes possessive.

Somalis are allowing people to call them “my slave”.

Abdi is unique to somalis only adding ي to Abd sounds unarabic

 

[Mount23]

Somalis say they not arabs yet most common name/ shoutout is Abdi, this is why Arabs think we are Arabs cuz shit doesnt make sense

 

[Apollo]

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Saying 'aniga' often while on the phone or with another Somali in public transport when a black male is near you is also a bit funny. They could think you are gossiping about them in a foreign language.

Aniga should become Ani, reform Af-Somali.

 

[warside]

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Saying 'aniga' often while on the phone or with another Somali in public transport when a black male is near you is also a bit funny. They could think you are gossiping about them in a foreign language.

Aniga should become Ani, reform Af-Somali.

This reminds me when an Egyptian asked me how do you say: What's your name in Somali?, This is around 2011-2012 and there was widespread famine in Somalia. I said magacaa, and he replied: magaaca. which is how the Egyptians pronounce (مجاعة) it means famine.

 

[Somalithinker]

What of Abdul. It's similar and used in many Muslim communities.

 

[Hargeysa]

There's one on here that joined recently called Ahmed but goes by Ed.

 

[Boqorada]

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Lool WAS IT YOU??

 

[Hargeysa]

Lool WAS IT YOU??

Lool, no way. I ain't ashamed of my heritage!

 

[Qeelbax]

nacas. shukri is from arabic. its an arabic name. its a male name. shukriyah is the female form.

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Shukriyah means thanks in urdu

 

[Qeelbax]

Abdi is unique to somalis only adding ي to Abd sounds unarabic

No abdi is my slave

 

[Qeelbax]

What of Abdul. It's similar and used in many Muslim communities.

First part of compound Arabic names beginning with عبد ال('Abd al) meaning "servant of the" (such as عبد العزيز ('Abd al-'Aziz) meaning "servant of the powerful").

 

[karkaar]

somalis in the diaspora should start giving their kids somali names, and im talking old school like xirsi,xagar,shire,fahiye,warfa,ijaabo,beydan,warsan,warsame,guled,roble,ladan,magan,shirwac,loyaan,kahiin,samakaab ect, if we dont move these names to the next generation they'll die out.