aabe

From Proto-Afroasiatic *ʔab-. Cognate with Proto-Semitic *ʾab- (“father”). See aabo.


af

From Proto-Cushitic *ʔaf-/*yaf-. Cognate with Beja [script needed] (yēf), Oromo afaan and Afar af.


xa

The name of the Latin-script letter X/x.


laba

From Proto-Cushitic *ɬa(a)ma. Cognate to Afar nammay and Oromo lama.


shan

From Proto-Cushitic. Cognates include Afar konoy, Oromo shan, Saho koon and Sidamo onte.


aabo

From Proto-Afroasiatic *ʔab-. Cognate with Proto-Semitic *ʾab- (“father”). See aabe.


toban

Inherited from Proto-Cushitic. Compare Afar taban, Burji tanna, Hadiyya tommo, Saho taman and Sidamo tonne.


febraayo

February (second month of the Gregorian calendar)


janaayo

From Italian gennaio, itself from Vulgar Latin *jen(u)ārius, from Latin Iānuārius.

January (first month of the Gregorian calendar)


abriil

April (fourth month of the Gregorian calendar)


maajo

May (fifth month of the Gregorian calendar)


agoosto

August (eighth month of the Gregorian calendar)


maarso

March (third month of the Gregorian calendar)


juun

June (sixth month of the Gregorian calendar)


oktoobar

October (tenth month of the Gregorian calendar)


nofeembar

November (eleventh month of the Gregorian calendar)


diseembar

December (twelfth month of the Gregorian calendar)


sebteembar

September (ninth month of the Gregorian calendar)


luuliyo

July (seventh month of the Gregorian calendar)


buug

buugag (plural)
buugaag (feminine plural)

book (collection of sheets of paper bound together containing printed or written material)


cayn

The name of the Latin-script letter C/c.


lix

From Proto-Cushitic. Cognates include Burji liya, Hadiyya loho, Oromo ja'a and Sidamo lee.


Maxamed

a male given name, equivalent to English Mahmud


Ismaaciil

bor

إِسْمَاعِيلُ

Arabic إِسْمَاعِيلُ (ʔismāʕīlu)


Axmed

From Arabic أَحْمَد (ʔaḥmad), from حَمِدَ (ḥamida, “to thank or to praise”).


Ibraahiim

Arabic إِبْرَاهِيم (ʔibrāhīm)


Cabdille

From Arabic عَبْد اللّٰه (ʕabd allāh, “servant of God”), from عَبْد (ʕabd, “servant”) + اللّٰه (allāh, “the All-highest, God”).

عَبْد اللّٰه


naag

náag (canonical feminine)
naagó (masculine plural)


saddex

From Proto-Cushitic *sazħ-. Cognate to Afar sidóc, Maay sede and Oromo sadii.


siddeed

Inherited from Proto-Cushitic. Compare Hadiyya sadeento, Oromo saddeet, Sidamo seete, Kambaata hezzéetto and Jiiddu siyiid, Xamtanga säwta, Qimant säxʷäta, Blin säɣʷäta.


toddoba

From Proto-Cushitic. Cognates include Oromo torba.


sagaal

Inherited from Proto-Cushitic. Compare Afar sagáal and Maay sagal.


madax

mádax (canonical masculine)
madáx (feminine plural)


ilig

ílig (canonical masculine)
ilkó (masculine plural)

From Proto-Cushitic *ʔiɬkʷ-. Cognates include Oromo ilkaan.


kitaab

book (especially in Muslim contexts, such as when referring to the Qur'an)


dheg

dhég (canonical feminine)
dhegó (masculine plural)

From Proto-Cushitic. Cognates include Rendille dogo, Jiiddu dhagi.


Shirshoore

(history, colloquial) An epithet of the reer darwiish (Siciid Harti), whom predominate in Sool, Cayn, the Fiqifuliye district and Bookh district


reer daraawiish

(history, colloquial) The Siciid Harti, whom predominate in Sool, Cayn, the Fiqifuliye district and Bookh district


reer darawiish

(history, colloquial) The Siciid Harti, who predominate in Sool, Cayn, the Fiqifuliye district and Bookh district


duubcad

(history) Epithet for the reer darawiish (Siciid Harti).

(history) A Horn African who wears a white turban, especially as a serviceperson.


Darawiish

(history) The Dhulbahante anti-colonial state established by the xarunta (haroun) that existed between 1895 C.E. and 1920 C.E. corresponding with modern-day Khaatumo; the successor state to the treatyless Dhulbahante garadship led by Sayyidka founded in Dareema Caddo.


Sayyidka

(history) The title of the head of state of Darawiish (circa 1895 - 1920), the Dhulbahante anti-colonial polity geographically corresponding to modern-day Khaatumo.


addoon

addòon (canonical masculine)
addóon (canonical feminine)

An old borrowing from a Semitic language; compare Old South Arabian 𐩱𐩵𐩣 (ʾdm), Ge'ez ዶም (dom).


jilib

From Proto-East Cushitic *g[i/u]lb+ (Bender, 2020), from Proto-Cushitic *gilb-/*gulb-. Cognates include Afar gulub, Oromo jilba, Jiiddu jolow, Qimant gə́rə́b, Blin gərb, Beja gulub, Saho gūmba, Xamtanga gərbə, Iraqw gurungura and Sidamo guluphpho, Hadiyya gurubbo. furthermore Amharic ጉልበት (gulbät).
Possibly related to Proto-Semitic *birk- (“knee”) which undergoes strong metathesis (*birk- > *kirb- > *gilb-).


dhiig

From Proto-East Cushitic *ɗiig+ (Bender, 2020). Cognate with Oromo dhiiga, Jiiddu dhig.


Cismaan

Borrowed from Turkish Osman or Arabic عثمان (romanized as Uthman).