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somalien

French, noun

somalien is spelled S-O-M-A-L-I-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 46,078th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Somalien is a French masculine noun meaning “Somali, Somali language” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Somalien is a different word: “Somali (resident or native of Somalia)”.

What does somalien mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    Somali

noun

  1. 1

    masculineSomali, Somali language

noun

as Somalien
  1. 1

    masculineSomali (resident or native of Somalia)

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. De la Somalie.

noun: 1. Habitant ou originaire de Somalie.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of somalien

  • somalienne feminine
  • somaliens masculine plural
  • somaliennes feminine plural
  • Somaliens plural
  • Somalienne feminine

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to somalien

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is somalien in French?

somalien appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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