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Somalian

adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Pertaining to the Republic of Somalia in a civic or governmental context.
Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating to the African republic of Somalia or its people or their language and culture wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A citizen from the country of Somalia. collective, countable

    "A Han Chinese man who is a citizen of Somalia is a Somalian but not an ethnic Somali. One can be a Somalian and not a Somali at the same time."

  2. 2
    a member of a tall dark (mostly Muslim) people inhabiting Somalia wordnet
  3. 3
    Synonym of Somali nonstandard, offensive, sometimes

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Somalia + -an.

Etymology 2

From Somalia + -an.

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