Browse African Slang

Intelligence (IQ)

Très stupide (Oyster IQ)

كيو أو إل أبديت - تحديث جودة الحياة (quality of life update)

Code rapide (Quick code)

Code QR (QR code)

Código de resposta rápida (Quick response code)

QR code (QR code)

Paiement par code QR (QR code payment)

دفع بالكيو آر - QR payment

كيو تي إي - حدث زمني سريع (quick time event)

Sitting/gathering

قحبة، غضب (Anger, mad)

Worried/anxious

Expensive (Somali)

Ugly

Hold/catch (Somali)

Cold (Somali) - relative term in hot climate

Maikutlo a Qacha's Nek / Qacha's Nek feeling

قادرية، طريقة صوفية (Qadiri Sufi order)

Delicious lunch

Good lunch (Somali) - lunch time wish

Prostitute (very offensive)

Frustration

Coffee

Arabic coffee

قهوة بلدي - Local coffee shop

Coffee maker/seller

My heart

Open heart/sincere

Heartbreak

Pen (Somali)

New pen

Long shirt

Law

Law/rules

Relatives (Somali/Arabic)

قرابة (Kinship / relation)

قرار (Decision)

قرض - Loan

Lawyer (Somali/Arabic)

Quran reciter

Close friend (f)

Small boat

ቃርሺ/ገንዘብ (Money - Oromo)

Short

Rajul bita'a kanisa (Priest/pastor)

قصر احمد (Qasr Ahmed area)

Cat

Khat, the mildly narcotic leaf chewed socially in the Horn of Africa. In Somali slang, jaad (or qaad) is often talked ab...

Partir, s'en aller (To leave, go away)