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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Essential Somali Vocab: Days of the Week in Somali

Soo dhawow to another post in the series Essential Somali Vocab helping you learn more Somali along with me! In this post, I hope to help learners like me learn the days of the week. Before we get started, let’s recap the words day, today,yesterday, tomorrow, week, month and year in Somali Day – Maalin…


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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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