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Somal   Listen
noun
Somal, Somali  n.  
1.
(Ethnol.) A Hamitic people of East Central Africa.
2.
Of or pertaining to Somalia or to the inhabitants of Somalia.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Somal" Quotes from Famous Books



... considered a beauty, and she was so immensely developed behind that when seated on level ground she could not rise, and had to push herself along until she came to a slope. Some of the women in various negro tribes have the same peculiarity; and according to Burton, the Somal men, 'are said to choose their wives by ranging them in a line and by picking her out who projects farthest a tergo. Nothing can be more hateful to a negro ...
— Primitive Love and Love-Stories • Henry Theophilus Finck
... "High-class Somali Arabs," thought I to myself, noting the while that as they arranged the robes they were taking in every one of us with their quick eyes. One of them shut the door, leaving Savage on this side of it as though they meant him to be present. Then they walked towards us, ...
— The Ivory Child • H. Rider Haggard
... international: Djibouti maintains economic ties and border accords with "Somaliland" leadership while maintaining some political ties to various factions in Somalia; thousands of Somali refugees await repatriation in ...
— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States
... wool with a distaff; and the sheep feeding around him, though carefully modelled, are quite unlike any of the modern breeds. Many of the domestic sheep of hot countries are more slender and less woolly than the wild sheep of the mountains. The black-and-white Somali sheep, for instance, are as smooth as ...
— The Naturalist on the Thames • C. J. Cornish


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