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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