African Slang Words Starting With "S"

Tea (Somali) - Essential drink in daily life

Tea with milk (Somali)

Mix tea (prepare tea)

Hot tea

New shirt

Five (Somali)

Worker/employee (Somali)

Is the work finished?

Work (Somali)

Hard work

New job

Good work (Somali) - work encouragement

The law (Somali/Arabic)

Share (social media)

Share it

Story/chat (Somali)

Long story/chat

Somali currency still used informally

Open a company

Express cargo

Sort cargo

Cargo handler

Many shipments

Left direction (Arabic-French)

What's your news? (Arabic)

What's your name? (Arabic)

What happened? (Arabic)

What's your opinion? (Arabic)

Courtship/dating (Somali)

Thank you (Arabic)

Thanks a lot (Arabic-French)

A little bit (Arabic-French)

Properly/well (Somali)

Live well

Otherwise/alternatively

To put it another way

Badly/poorly (Somali)

Like that/this way (Somali)

For that reason

Therefore/because of that

Because of that

How do you see it? (Somali)

How's it going for you

How are you (Somali)

How does it look? (Somali)

How are things going?

How did it go? (Somali)

Eight (Somali)

As usual

Network signal (French/English)