Is there a Somali Word for Cancer?

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Grant: SomaliNet Super; Posts: 5845; Joined: Mon Jun 13, 2005 1:43 pm; Location: Wherever you go, there you are.

Is there a Somali Word for Cancer?

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Post by Grant » Tue Jul 08, 2014 8:09 am

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Post by thehappyone » Tue Jul 08, 2014 8:15 am

kaanserka

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Re: Is there a Somali Word for Cancer?

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Post by Grant » Tue Jul 08, 2014 8:18 am

That's obviously adapted English.

Is there any older term?

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Post by thehappyone » Tue Jul 08, 2014 8:19 am

cudur

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Re: Is there a Somali Word for Cancer?

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Post by Grant » Tue Jul 08, 2014 8:21 am

That's just an illness.

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Post by blizzard90 » Tue Jul 08, 2014 8:23 am

xaanun Alan lag a bogsan

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Re: Is there a Somali Word for Cancer?

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Post by Grant » Tue Jul 08, 2014 8:24 am

Translate please.

TheGrumpyGeeljire: SomaliNet Heavyweight; Posts: 3556; Joined: Sun Jan 12, 2014 1:25 pm

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Post by TheGrumpyGeeljire » Tue Jul 08, 2014 8:25 am

A disease that never cures.

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Re: Is there a Somali Word for Cancer?

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Post by blizzard90 » Tue Jul 08, 2014 8:27 am

since people in Somalia don't get cancer we dont have a word for it. so xanuun aan laga bogsan means a deadly sickness

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Post by Mrkutiiriye » Tue Jul 08, 2014 8:27 am

In Somali they call it MenaceToSociety

Grant: SomaliNet Super; Posts: 5845; Joined: Mon Jun 13, 2005 1:43 pm; Location: Wherever you go, there you are.

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Post by Grant » Tue Jul 08, 2014 8:35 am

http://rrp.cancer.gov/programsResources ... omalia.pdf

http://www.hpvcentre.net/statistics/reports/SOM_FS.pdf

Sadly, there's lots of cancer in Somalia.

It looks like the literature is using the English "kansar".

http://www.cancervic.org.au/languages/somali

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Post by waraabe251 » Tue Jul 08, 2014 8:44 am

saradan which is arabic

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Post by Anarchist » Tue Jul 08, 2014 8:50 am

Somalis used to refer to cancer as furuq and it was far more widespread than most people were aware of.

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