somalian

Other forms of somalian

plural

somalians·

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 somalian

What does somalian mean?

somalian means "a member of a tall dark (mostly Muslim) people inhabiting Somalia". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in somalian?

somalian has 3 syllables: so-ma-lian. The stress falls on "ma". In IPA it is /səˈmɑljən/.

What is another word for somalian?

Close synonyms include Somali, Somali. 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 somalian a common word?

somalian is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.