African Slang Words Starting With "H"

Maternal aunt (Somali)

Middle of the night

Good night (Somali) - night farewell

Cold night

Dear my brother (Arabic-French)

My love/dear (Arabic) - Term of endearment

So then

Sweet talk (Somali)

Speech is gold (Somali saying)

Now (Somali)

Before now/earlier

Just now

Therefore/so

Better than nothing (Somali idiom)

Permissible/clean (Arabic-French)

Are you still there?

There (Somali)

Here (Somali)

Where do you live? (Somali)

Where are you?

Where is she? (Somali)

Where did you get it? (Somali)

Congratulations

Thank God it's okay (Arabic-French)

Porter (Arabic)

Forbidden not good (Arabic-French)

However/but

Women (Somali)

Easy task

Weather/air (Somali)

Nice weather/breeze

Neighborhood name

Okay/alright (Somali) - agreement expression

Okay okay (Somali) - acknowledgment

Listen here

Songs (Somali)

Heritage and culture (Somali)

Cooked meat

Fresh meat (Somali) - butcher's call

Grill meat

Home delivery

Put down (crane operation)

Hey (calling out)

Mother (Somali)

Hospital (French)

Front/before (Somali)

Go ahead/proceed

First of all/by the way

Humidity (French)

Yellow (Somali)