Essential Somali – Learn the names for colours in Somali

Always wanted to learn the names of the colours in Somali? Then this post, with another amazing vocab list is for you! Where possible, I’ve included different words for the colours. Hope this helps!

  • Red – guduud/casaan
  • Orange – oranji/liini
  • Yellow – jalle
  • Green – cagaar
  • Blue – buluug/ciraad
  • Purple – carwaajis
  • Pink – basali
  • Black – madow
  • White – caddaan
  • Grey – dameeri
  • Brown – bunni
  • Gold – Dahab

That’s it for this post and good luck with your language learning!

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Top 20 Common Somali Verbs to Master

Looking to learn Somali? If you are a beginner, you can learn some of the basic and commonly used verbs here! Hope this verb list helps! Did you know that the verb fikir and aqri are of Arabic origin? If you want to learn more Arabic loanwords, you can check out my post below! Nabad…


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2 responses to “Essential Somali – Learn the names for colours in Somali”

  1. Kadar A Sirat avatar
    Kadar A Sirat

    blue is ciraad (from cir)

    orange is liini

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    1. Iftiin Learns avatar

      Mahadsanid! Do you know if it is dialect specific?

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