Somalia

→ Japanese: ソマリア (Somaria)

Federal Republic of Somalia
Federal Republic of Somalia#English

A country in East Africa, in the Horn of Africa. Official name: Federal Republic of Somalia. Capital: Mogadishu.


Somalian

en-adj

Somalian (comparative more Somalian, superlative most Somalian)

more Somalian (comparative)
most Somalian (superlative)

2007 April 22, “Somalian government tells Mogadishu residents to flee”, in The New York Times:


Somalian

(nonstandard, sometimes offensive) Synonym of Somali


Somali

en-noun

Somali (countable and uncountable, plural Somalis)

(uncountable) A Cushitic language spoken mainly in Somalia and eastern Ethiopia.

(countable) A person from Somalia or of Somali descent.

Somaliër

a person from Somalia or of Somali descent


Somali

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


shilling

From Middle English schilling, shilling, from Old English sċilling, from Proto-Germanic *skillingaz, equivalent to skill + -ing. Doublet of scalding and schilling.

look as if one had lost a shilling and found sixpence

The currency of Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda.


Somaliland

From Somali + -land; analogous with Jubaland and Puntland.

Somali Coast Protectorate
Somali Coast Protectorate

An unrecognized state in East Africa, de-facto independent of Somalia; formerly the Somali Coast Protectorate.


rupia

(historical) The former currencies of Italian Somaliland and Portuguese India.


somalo

(historical) The currency of Italian Somaliland from 1950 to 1962, divided into 100 centesimi.


Jubaland

From Juba + -land. From the Jubba River. Analogous with Puntland.

An autonomous regional state in southern Somalia.


Sool, Sanaag and Cayn

Just south of the Warsangeli, the Dhulbahante set up the Sool, Sanaag and Cayn (SSC) administration in 2009. This was succeeded by the Khaatumo State of Somalia, founded in the Dhulbahante territories in January 2012.

2017, Markus Virgil Hoehne, “The Rupture of Territoriality”, in Christian Lund, Michael Eilenberg, editors, Rule and Rupture, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 197:

This resulted in a meeting in Nairobi in 2009 during which the Sool, Sanaag and Cayn (SSC) administration was established.

2019, Omar S. Mahmood, “Overlapping claims by Somaliland and Puntland”, in East Africa Report, volume 2019, number 27, Institute for Security Studies, →ISSN, page 6:

For many years Lasanod, the capital of the Sool region of northern Somalia, has been claimed by competing authorities—the Somaliland, Puntland, Khaatumo and Sool, Sanaag and Cayn (SSC) administrations.

2021, Ahmed M. Musa, “Lasanod: City at the margins”, in XCEPT (Cross-Border Conflict Evidence/Policy/Trends), Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, page 7:

An administration in northern Somalia formed by the reer darawiish in 2009, subsequently called the Khatumo State (2012–2017).


Gulf of Aden

A gulf between Yemen and Somalia, connected to the Somali Sea through the Guardafui Channel.


Daraawiish

(historical) A mostly Dhulbahante anti-colonial state and kingdom in the Horn of Africa that existed from 1896 until 1921.


Kismaayo

A port city in the southern Lower Juba (Jubbada Hoose) province of Somalia.


dhaanto

A style of traditional music and a folk dance of the Somali people.


niiko

After decades of war Mogadishu is tentatively relaxing. From sourdough pancakes to traditional bum-shaking Niiko dance and political hip-hop,[…]Xamar has a local dance called Niiko, which is the rhythmic shaking of the bum synchronized with drums.

2015 August 24, Sadia Ahmed, Fatuma Abdulahi, “An insider’s guide to Mogadishu: ‘There’s no life without peace’”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 2023-10-14:

Niiko dancing was one of several dimensions of Somali culture that she had actively embraced and enjoyed celebrating and displaying to others.[…]Niiko was a part of her Somali culture and whether it conflicted or not with religion was not a concern for her at that point in time. Interestingly, Niiko is a dance that the majority of first-generation Somalis associate with the minority Bantu,[…]

2018 August 27, Giulia Liberatore, Somali, Muslim, British: Striving in Securitized Britain, Routledge, →ISBN, page 71:

A folk dance from southern Somalia similar to twerking which is generally performed by women.