Inaan timo tidcan. .

[qoraxeey]

i love it

my ayeeyo always used to timoo tidcaan on me

[Daanyerow]

Zingii

Naagaha guntiinada xirto oo garabka u qaawan yahay habraha ilmaha badan dhalay waaye marka wax aad usii daneenayo maleh laakiin gabar naaskeeda taagan yahay oo madaxa u qaawan yahay dhib ee keeni karta.

[zingii]

i love it

my ayeeyo always used to timoo tidcaan on me

her way of signaling (nimanka), to come check u out.
i'll say u were advertisement to some degree.

[qoraxeey]

i was a child U pervert

also timo tidcaan is better for us african girls .. our hair is best that way

[zingii]

Zingii

Naagaha guntiinada xirto oo garabka u qaawan yahay habraha ilmaha badan dhalay waaye marka wax aad usii daneenayo maleh laakiin gabar naaskeeda taagan yahay oo madaxa u qaawan yahay dhib ee keeni karta.

i see ur point but of the two age groups (who should be on the modest side)?

[Saraxnow]

Not all wore guntiino where it was one piece cloth that was woven around the body like the Saari worn by the Indian women.

We call this two-piece with a skirt under, Garays

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[qoraxeey]

u have to understand

back in the days before cadaans came to somalia ...we didnt have sowing machine

so the women just wraped clothing / maroo around them self .. thats why its called GUNTIINOO ....

[zingii]

i was a child U pervert

also timo tidcaan is better for us african girls .. our hair is best that way

My apology if u were under age but i must insist in saying (if u hit puberty then u were of the legal age).

[kambuli]

Those kinds of questions should be addressed by the elders in here...Being one, let me do a justice to the statement aka Inan Timo Tidcan.

This implies to the nomadic traditions not in the cities. In the nomadic culture when a girl is not married she had her hair in a Tidic or Dabid fashion. But when she married, she covers her hair not that good either, because they mostly used "gambo" or "Ilyar" which basically revealed the kind of hair they had..Most of them were not aware of the requirement of muslim women to cover her hair..But they were more decent than the ones nowadays.. may Allaah SWT forgive them for what they didn't know...

[Daanyerow]

Kambuli halkee ku dhalatay adigoo runta sheegayo oo meesha ku dhalatay aadan ka faanenin?

[Faranacab]

I've always knew what this phrase meant (-timo tidcan-).. But I was recently made aware that single females back home *obviously before the civil war* would literally 'tidcan their timo' and not wear hijaab or gabarsaar [1] out in public..

This was to make people aware *particularly men* that she was single.. But females had to cover their hair as soon as they got married.. And if a single female covered her hair, people would automatically assume wa la gaba[2].

Mala.. The civil war was a blessing in disguise..

1. Garbo-saar
2. La qabaa.

For the topic, I really don't know the wisdom behind it. If you would let me search and inquire the elders I'll come back with better explanations. Later.

[kambuli]

Daanyeerow,

Haggee ku dhalatay macnaheeda waa, Qolaama Tahay oo af Carabi ah

[Saraxnow]

^

[DisplacedDiraac]

1. Garbo-saar
2. La qabaa.

For the topic, I really don't know the wisdom behind it. If you would let me search and inquire the elders I'll come back with better explanations. Later.

Seriously people correcting my af Soomali.. pretty much 24/7 need to quit it.. It's getting real boring.. There's folks who type in much more worse af Soomali than me.. Yet no one bats an eyelid.

Kambuli - Thanks for sharing..

[Daanyerow]

Daanyeerow,

Haggee ku dhalatay macnaheeda waa, Qolaama Tahay oo af Carabi ah

War aniga walaahi qabiilkaaga ma rabi inaa ogaado koleey islaan faqash ah aa tahay laakiin what I want to know is were you born in caasimada or somewhere else?