Word of the day: How to say ‘knockout’ in Somali language?

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How to say ‘knockout’ in Somali language?

In Somali language, ‘knockout’ is called ‘gaggab’.

 

[Radical]

Gaggap is also used for walking unsteadily or feeling dizzy

 

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Gaggap is also used for walking unsteadily or feeling dizzy

Yeah. The the correct word is Gaggabsan. Adj. it is derived from gaggab.

Also there is another word that mean the exact the same thing. ‘gabgab’ (Walking unsteady or feeling dizzy )

 

[Kalsoon]

Can you use it in a sentence.

 

[hinters]

I ask my dad what it means he said it means when someone gets a club like stick from a tree goes behind someone and hits the back of their neck/head and knocks them out.

 

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Can you use it in a sentence.

Here is sentence for the verb

gaggab = to knockout

Hal feedh ayaa lagu gaggabiyay Cabdi.
Cabdi was knocked out with one punch.

/feer/feedh/ = punch

 

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I ask my dad what it means he said it means when someone gets a club like stick from a tree goes behind someone and hits the back of their neck/head and knocks them out.

Your Aabo explained it perfectly.

Another word that people use to mean 'knockout' is 'suuxi' or 'suuxin’.

For example

Feedh ayaa lagu suuxiyay.
He was knocked out with a fist.

verbs
Suuxi = to make someone unconscious, faint pass out.

Suux = to faint

Sentence
Waan suuxay = I fainted

 

[Kalsoon]

Here is sentence for the verb

gaggab = to knockout

Hal feedh ayaa lagu gaggabiyay Cabdi.
Cabdi was knocked out with one punch.

/feer/feedh/ = punch

Mahadsanid walaal. It still sounds weird on my tongue because it’s new to me but I’ll try to use it in a convo soon lol. In shaa Allah

Can we say it when we want to praise someone? When people say someone is a knockout in some way.

 

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I ask my dad what it means he said it means when someone gets a club like stick from a tree goes behind someone and hits the back of their neck/head and knocks them out.

wallahi somali wa yaab. A word that describes a very specific chain of actions.