somali

Other forms of somali

plural

somalis·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about somali

What does somali mean?

somali means "a member of a tall dark (mostly Muslim) people inhabiting Somalia". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in somali?

somali has 3 syllables: so-ma-li. The stress falls on "ma". In IPA it is /səˈmɑli/.

What is another word for somali?

Close synonyms include Somalian, Somalian. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is somali a common word?

somali is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with somali?

3 words rhyme with somali. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.