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Zabah, i dont really delete threads without a good reason. so is deji inanyaheey. Btw, i will keep eye on your threads from now on, because, i dont like masibadka.
The term `abu' is completely Un-Somali and has nothing to do with Islam either. It is a beautiful Arabic nomenculture which gives fathers the name of their first or favourite child or sometimes, their jobs or even characteristics. Some Arab nations take it further. In Iraq it could mean just your name. So if you are called Ali in Shia Iraq but you have no son you will be automatically called Abu Hussein. No one will call you Ali that will be disrespectful. If you are a soldier you will be called Abu Ismail; a policman is Abu Haqi.
Muhammed is Abu Jassim; a term which some Arabs also lovingly call all Iraqis.
So a Somali called Roobow which is an extremely Somali name(unlike Arabic/Muslim names like Ali or ahmed or Muhammed) to be pre or suffixed with the term Abu just sounds so unbelievably fake and hilarious.
Just imagine someone used to be called John Smith now calling himself Abu John Smith Rainmaker. And then add ten for Somali's obssesion with nickname hilarity and you might just grasp how ridicolous this guy sounds
Somalis have colorfull ways with nicknames. For example, there's this man with nickname: S!!L Weershe. And how about Shuun-Shanleyso (spelling) for gender balance.
Not only hilarious but characteristically cruel. I remember a guy with a limp which meant he bent forward with his shorter leg thus protruding his back slightly upwards when walking. His nickname? Dhuusa cir u tuur.(The one who throws fart skywards). Of course everybody called him Dhuso Cir(Skyfart)
Evil sons of biitches arent we? Great your nick takes the sting out of it.
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