The old name of bosaso was bandar qasim and we have a town in bari called bandar beyla
bandar is a persian word for port, I always wondered as to how much the Persians influenced our regions
The Persian word Bandar for " port ",
does not imply Persian hegemony or dominance along the Somali coast , it is not a political rule.
Rather, its presence there reflects its status as a wanderwort: a wandering loanword that has diffused widely across unrelated languages and cultures .
Its widespread usage: in the Persian/Arabian Gulf ,Yemen, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Swahili coast.
# "Wanderwort / wandering word / stray word" : a word that has spread as a loanword in many languages and cultures .
singular : bandar بَنْدَر means port .
plural : banaadir بَنَادِر means ports .