Giving your child an English/western name

[Mad_Mullah]

NOOO, You're telling me people actually watch that Hindi shit on Universal TV?

[Faarax-Brawn]

I know a family that has kids with english names, but they are all nick names.(They have official Somali names,) laakin everyone calls them by the nick names. one of them for instance goes by James, another one goes by John)

 

In any case, i have seen Somalis calling dark skin jareer looking like somalis as "JOHN". or those that have middle eastern features as "Arab"..so what the Hey, name him/her whatever that rocks your boat man. (xaa ka rabtaa !!!).

[Aaliyyah]

ElPunto;963071 wrote:

^Why Arabic names? Is there something noteworthy about adopting this cultures' naming practices as opposed to other cultures? - Axlaam, Najaax, and other BS baa nacay

 

And the thing is we don't even live in Arab countries. Go for Joshua or Seth or whatever makes you happy.

No one is forcing you to like arabic names. So chill out.

 

Luqada diintena suuban kuso dagtayna miya garan kari weydey qimaheda.

[Nin-Yaaban]

Naa neys uga dhig.

 

Mohamed aka Mo

Feysal aka Fey

Shirwac aka Shyster

IWM....

[ElPunto]

Aaliyyah - I asked a question and expressed an opinion - you need to relax. Not sure what Axlaam has to do with the language of the Quran but whatever floats your boat.

[Faarax-Brawn]

Nin-Yaaban;963128 wrote:

Naa neys uga dhig.

 

Mohamed aka Mo

Feysal aka Fey

Shirwac aka Shyster

IWM....

waa kaa.

[xiinfaniin]

In Gaalkacyo there was a famous man who named his children after Arab strongmen/kufaars:

 

Fircoon, Haamaan, and Abu Jahal.

 

Today some of those sons are leaving in the west with Somali names.

[Aaliyyah]

ElPunto;963133 wrote:

Aaliyyah - I asked a question and expressed an opinion - you need to relax. Not sure what Axlaam has to do with the language of the Quran but whatever floats your boat.

Axlam is an arabic name and the language of the Quran happens to be Arabic. Hence, our religion connects us to Arabs. What connects us to western names other than the fact we live among them now?..

[Alpha Blondy]

somalee;963023 wrote:

Been wondering if naming your child David, Abraham, Moses....

.....similarly, we ought ask if Dawood, Ibrahim and Musa should be prohibited too, ma garatay?

 

they are after all..... foreign names and so far removed from the indigenous religions of our forefathers, inaar.

 

i'd name the children with traditional somali names. waa iga taalo.

 

girls

Cawo

Canbaro

Cawralla

Salalbuq

Hodan

Deeqa

Filsan

etc

 

boys

Cawale

Aidarus

Ghelle

Waq

Waq yare

Waq Weyne

etc

[Gheelle.T]

Sida Afghanta aa kitaabta Quranka intii kala fur, close your eyes and randomly choose a page in the book. Whatever written in the first verse of that page is going to be the chosen name. Voila, just add the last name and you got yourself a name. Bismillah Khan, Rasulullah Bagti, Lahuruuh Masood. Waaba dhamaatay. How easy

[Alpha Blondy]

Gheelle.T;963157 wrote:

Sida Afghanta aa kitaabta Quranka intii kala fur, close your eyes and randomly choose a page in the book. Whatever written in the first verse of that page is going to be the chosen name. Voila, just add the last name and you got yourself a name.

Bismillah Khan, Rasulullah Bagti, Lahuruuh Masood. Waaba dhamaatay. How easy

or sida chinese-ka, slam a small hammer against your cooking wok, close your eyes and randomly choose the sound that you hear. whatever sound you hear from the wok will be the chosen name. Voila, just add the last name and you got yourself a name. Ching Xu, Chang Li, Cheng Chen. weeba dhamaatay. how easy .

 

:cool:

[Gheelle.T]

^You are so darn smart, Alpha

[Alpha Blondy]

^ you're not too bad yourself, inaar.

 

do you know how reer Jubbaland name their kids?

 

for the boys, it's a choice between 6 presidents (excluding Baasto, which is a nickname) and for the girls........ its the wives of the 6 presidents (excluding min-yarada Baare)....ma garatay?

[wyre]

somalee;963023 wrote:

Been wondering if naming your child David, Abraham, Moses etc is prohibited in Islam. Abraham is the English version and Ibrahim the Arabic one, but the real name of the prophet was neither Abraham nor Ibrahim. Similarly naming a child Guled or Geedi is only Somali and not Islamic. Since we are not Arabs, I might as well name him Joshua (Josh). Its not different than naming a Somali child Sacuud, Jamal etc. Unless of course there's clear proof in the Quran or the traditions of the prophet (Pbuh) that prohibit English/western/biblical names. Are there?

The name of the prophet was Ibrahim, Don't talk about something you don't know about sxb,

 

The other Thing, It doesnt matter what you name your son, balse, wax dadka kula af garanayaan u baxso, sidaas baa wanaagsane

[Mad_Mullah]

It was Ibrahim, which is not Arabic but became part of the Arab names. Just like Musa etc.