Somali

See also: somali, somalí, and Sómali

English

Etymology

From or akin to Somali Soomaali.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /səˈmɑːli/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /soʊˈmɑːli/, /səˈmɑːli/
• Hyphenation: So‧ma‧li

Noun

Somali (countable and uncountable, plural Somalis)

1. (uncountable) A Cushitic language spoken mainly in Somalia and eastern Ethiopia.
2. (countable) A person from Somalia or of Somali descent.
3. A domestic cat breed.

Synonyms

• Thesaurus:Somali

Hypernyms

• (person from Somalia): Cushite, Horner, Horn African

Translations

a language

• Afrikaans: Somali, Somalies (af)
• Arabic: صُومَالِيَّة (ar) f (ṣomāliyya)
• Armenian: սոմալի (hy) (somali)
• Basque: somaliera (eu)
• Belarusian: самалійская f (samalijskaja)
• Bulgarian: сомалийски m (somalijski)
• Catalan: somali (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 索馬里語 / 索马里语 (zh) (Suǒmǎlǐ-yǔ), 索馬利亞語 / 索马利亚语

• Czech: somálština f
• Dutch: Somalisch (nl) n, Somali (nl) n
• Esperanto: somala lingvo
• Finnish: somali (fi), somalin kieli
• French: somali (fr) m
• German: Somali (de) n, Somalisch (de) n
• Greek: σομαλικά (el) n pl (somaliká)
• Gujarati: સોમાલી m (somālī)
• Hindi: सोमाली (hi) m (somālī)
• Hungarian: szomáli (hu) m
• Icelandic: Sómalska m
• Irish: Somáilis f
• Japanese: ソマリア語 (Somaria-go), ソマリ語 (ja) (Somari-go)
• Khmer: ភាសាសូម៉ាលី (pʰiesaa soomaalii)
• Korean: 소말리어 (somallieo)
• Latvian: somāļu valoda f, somāliešu valoda f
• Lithuanian: somalių (lt)
• Macedonian: сомалиски m (somaliski)
• Maltese: Is-Somalu m
• Marathi: सोमाली (somālī)
• Moksha: сомалиень (somalijeń)
• Navajo: Soomáálii bizaad
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: somali (no) m, somalisk m

  Nynorsk: somali m, somalisk (nn) m

• Polish: somalijski (pl) m
• Portuguese: somali (pt) m
• Romanian: somaleză (ro) f, somali (ro) f
• Russian: сомали́йский (ru) m (somalíjskij)
• Scots: Somali
• Somali: af somaali (so)
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: somališćina f

• Spanish: somalí (es) m
• Swahili: Kisomali
• Swedish: somaliska (sv) c
• Thai: ภาษาโซมาลี (paasăa sohmaalee)
• Tigrinya: ሶማሊ (somali)
• Turkish: Somalice (tr)
• Ukrainian: сомалійська f (somalijsʹka)
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can
• Walloon: Somalyin
• Welsh: Somalïeg f

a person from Somalia or of Somali descent

• Afrikaans: Somaliër
• Arabic: صُومَالِيّ m (ṣomāliyy), صُومَالِيَّة (ar) f (ṣomāliyya)
• Basque: somaliar
• Catalan: somali (ca) m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 索馬里人 (zh) (Suǒmǎlǐ-rén)

• Czech: Somálec (cs) m, Somálka (cs) f
• Dutch: Somaliër (nl) m, Somalische (nl) f
• Esperanto: somaliano (man or woman), somalianino (woman)
• Finnish: somali (fi)
• French: Somalien (fr) m, Somalienne (fr) f
• Galician: somalí (gl) m
• German: (ethnic) Somali (de) m or f, (citizen) Somalier (de) m, Somalierin (de) f
• Greek: Σομαλός (el) m (Somalós), Σομαλή f (Somalí)
• Hindi: सुमाली (hi) m (sumālī)
• Irish: Somálach m
• Latvian: somālietis m, somāliete f
• Lithuanian: somalietis (lt) m, somalietė (lt) f
• Marathi: सोमाली (somālī)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: somalier m

  Nynorsk: somaliar (nn) m

• Polish: Somalijczyk (pl) m, Somalijka (pl) f
• Portuguese: somali (pt) m or f, somaliano (pt) m
• Romanian: somalez (ro) m, somaleză (ro) f
• Russian: сомали́ец (ru) m (somalíjec), сомали́йка (ru) f (somalíjka)
• Spanish: somalí (es)
• Swahili: Msomali (sw)
• Turkish: Somalili (tr)

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Somali terms
• Somali on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Somali (cat) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:Somali (cat) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Adjective

Somali (not comparable)

1. Of, from, or pertaining to Somalia, the Somali people or language.

Derived terms

• Mali
• Somali crow
• Somali giraffe
• Somali myrrhor
• Somali ostrich
• Somali wild ass

Translations

pertaining to Somalia

• Afrikaans: Somalies (af)
• Arabic: صُومَالِيّ (ṣomāliyy)
• Basque: somaliar
• Catalan: somali (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 索馬里的 (zh) (Suǒmǎlǐ-de)

• Czech: somálský (cs)
• Dutch: Somalisch (nl)
• Esperanto: somalia
• Finnish: somalialainen (fi), somali-, somalilais-
• French: somalien (fr)
• Galician: somalí (gl)
• German: somalisch (de)
• Greek: σομαλικός m (somalikós)
• Irish: Somálach
• Latvian: somāļu, somāliešu
• Marathi: सोमाली (somālī)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: somalisk

  Nynorsk: somalisk (nn)

• Polish: somalijski (pl) m
• Portuguese: somali (pt), somaliano (pt)
• Romanian: somalez (ro)
• Russian: сомали́йский (ru) (somalíjskij)
• Spanish: somalí (es)
• Swahili: Kisomali
• Welsh: Somalïaidd m or f, Somalaidd m or f

Further reading

A Somali kitten.

• Somali–English Dictionary: from Webster’s Dictionary — the Rosetta Edition.
• ISO 639-1 code so, ISO 639-3 code som (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Somali, som ⁠

Anagrams

• Alimos, Islamo-, Siloam, mailos, maolis, salomi

Afrikaans

Noun

Somali (plural Somali's)

1. Synonym of Somaliër (“Somali, person from Somalia”)

Proper noun

Somali

1. Synonym of Somalies (“Somali language”)

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French Somalie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /so.má.li/, [so̞.mä́.l̠ʲi]

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Somali

1. Somalia (a country in East Africa, in the Horn of Africa)

Declension

Declension of Somali

	singular
nominative	Somali
accusative	Somali'yi
dative	Somali'ye
locative	Somali'de
ablative	Somali'den
genitive	Somali'nin

Possessive forms of Somali

	singular	plural
benim (my)	Somali'm	Somalilerim Somali'lerim
senin (your)	Somali'n	Somalilerin Somali'lerin
onun (his/her/its)	Somali'si	Somalileri Somali'leri
bizim (our)	Somali'miz	Somalilerimiz Somali'lerimiz
sizin (your)	Somali'niz	Somalileriniz Somali'leriniz
onların (their)	Somali'si Somalileri Somali'leri	Somalileri Somali'leri

See also

countries in Africa: Afrika ülkesi (appendix)edit

• Angola
• Batı Sahra
• Benin
• Botsvana
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Cezayir
• Cibuti
• Çad
• Ekvator Ginesi
• Eritre
• Esvatini
• Etiyopiya
• Fas
• Fildişi Sahili
• Gabon
• Gambiya
• Gana
• Gine
• Gine-Bissau
• Güney Afrika
• Güney Sudan
• Kamerun
• Kenya
• Komorlar
• Kongo Cumhuriyeti
• Kongo Demokratik Cumhuriyeti
• Lesotho
• Liberya
• Libya
• Madagaskar
• Malavi
• Mali
• Mauritius
• Mısır
• Moritanya
• Mozambik
• Namibya
• Nijer
• Nijeria
• Orta Afrika Cumhuriyeti
• Ruanda
• Senegal
• Seyşeller
• Sierra Leone
• Somali
• Sudan
• São Tomé ve Príncipe
• Tanzanya
• Togo
• Tunus
• Uganda
• Yeşil Burun
• Zambiya
• Zimbabve