African Slang Words Starting With "M"

Every day (Somali)

These days

Social gathering place where people chew qat and socialize

Congratulations (Arabic)

Congratulations (Arabic-French emphasis)

Sweet/Good/Nice (Somali) - Used to describe anything pleasant

Teacher (Somali/Arabic)

Headache (Somali)

Black (Somali)

City center

Small town

Your name? (Somali short form)

Thank you

Right now (French-Somali emphasis)

City hall (French)

Sweet pancakes (Somali) - street food's call

Gold spoon

Manifest (French)

Handling (French)

Small restaurant

Let's meet again (Somali)

Always/every time

The ships (Somali plural)

Stew/soup (Somali)

Sometimes

Merchandise (French) - goods

Central market (Transport) - market destination

Sailor (French)

First/initially

Then/at that time (Somali)

New ship

Ship maintenance

Ship preparation

Ship arrival

Ship stop/berth

Ship passenger

Earlier/first time

Port/harbor (Arabic)

Responsible person/official (Arabic)

Good evening (Arabic)

Long scarf

God has willed it (Arabic) - expression of appreciation

God has blessed (Arabic-Somali religious expression)

God has willed - beautiful (Arabic-French)

Mosque (Arabic)

Big mosque

Near the mosque

Match/game (French/English)

Bad (French)

Prophet's birthday celebration