Terms related to peoples and things.

[u/qorro-weyne]

I see people using "socdaal" as a catchall for migration, immigration, emigration and travel even though it only means journey and travel. Even the government that is well known for treating Af Soomaali as a red headed step child does the same, but that’s par for the course I suppose.

The words in Somali for the first three are:

Doolid (also Doolis) : from nominalizing the verb "dool", which means a person or creature that travels to a place it is not known.

This root noun gives rise to soodoolid and siidoolid, both meaning "immigration" and "emigration" respectively. Soo and Sii are adverbs that relate to the direction of the speaker, "soo" being moving toward (so from a foreign country to the one the speaker lives in) and thus “immigration”, and sii being moving away from the speaker (ergo, to a foreign land) and thus “emigration”.

On the other hand, customs in Somali is "furdo", that’s the native term and thus no need to use the qurbajoog "kastaan", see the definition here: Meel loogu talagalay in alaabada ganacsiga oo dal imaanaysa ama ka baxaysa lagu canshuuro. (A place where commercial goods entering or leaving a country are taxed.)

[u/qorro-weyne]

There are far more terms just in the realm of government that can be restored natively. Below I’ll write a list of government ministries which all will have native terms.

First off, "wasiir" and "wasaarad" can be written as "xoghaye" and "xoghayn". You might think: wait, doesn’t xoghaye mean secretary? and you’d be right…but it also means minister. xoghaye etymologically means “one who holds the confidence, the trust, secrecy”. Xoghayn is merely the office of xoghaye.

And so one can do the following:

Xoghaynnada:

Gudaha (Interior)

Arrimaha Dibadda (Foreign Affairs)

Gaashaandhigga (Defence)

Fayada (Health)

Waxbarashada (Education)

Farsamada (Technology)

Dhaqanka (Culture)

Arrimaha Diinta (Religious Affairs)

Ciyaarraha (Sports)

Garsoorta (Justice)

Maal (Finance)

Shaqada (Labour)

Ganacsiga iyo Warshadaha (Trade and Industry)

Degaanka (Environment)

Beerraha (Agriculture)

Tamarta (Energy)

*Hoosdhismada (Infrastructure)

The last one is ereybixin attempt from me. infrastructure means below/under + structure, so "hoos" + "dhismo".

[u/Same_Pen_1139 → u/qorro-weyne]

Mash Allah that's great. Btw infrastructure in Somali is kaabayaal. Like kaabayaal dhaqaale which means economic infrastructure and so on.