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Definition of Somali
1. Adjective. Of or relating to the African republic of Somalia or its people or their language and culture. "Somali coffee is excellent"
2. Noun. A member of a tall dark (mostly Muslim) people inhabiting Somalia.
3. Noun. The Cushitic language spoken by the Somali.
Definition of Somali
1. n. A Hamitic people of East Central Africa.
Definition of Somali
1. Proper noun. A Cushitic language spoken mainly in Somalia and eastern Ethiopia. ¹
2. Noun. A person from Somalia or of Somali descent. ¹
3. Noun. A domestic cat breed. ¹
4. Adjective. Of, from, or pertaining to Somalia, the Somali people or language. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Somali
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Somali
Literary usage of Somali
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1891)
"A Journey through part of somali-land, between Zeila and Bulhar. ... ALTHOUGH a
British protectorate has existed in somali-land since tho evacuation of the ..."
2. Folklore by Folklore Society (Great Britain), Joseph Jacobs, Alfred Trübner Nutt, Arthur Robinson Wright, William Crooke (1904)
"SPECIMENS OF somali TALES. (Collected by JWC Kirk, Lieut. VI. King's African
Rifles.") THE following stories are offered to the student of folklore for what ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1860)
"I now applied to the Government for some somali policemen, but unfortunately
there were then too few hands present to carry on the duties of the office, ..."
4. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1885)
"PROCEEDINGS ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY AND MONTHLY RECORD OF GEOGRAPHY. A Journey
through the somali Country to the Welle ..."
5. The Map of Africa by Treaty by Edward Hertslet, Great Britain (1894)
"LIST OP TREATIES, Ac. Ko. Page 178 1840—1894. Kotes On the somali ... Conditional
recognition of Egyptian jurisdiction over the somali Coast (see Egypt). ..."
6. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1883)
"Various somali tribes or clans claim the territory between those towns and the
possession of the road connecting them, resulting in incessant quarrels and ..."
7. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The early isolated High Cushitic tongues (originally branched off from a stock
common with Galla and somali) diverge most strongly from the original type. ..."