MAGAC DIR MACNIHIISA IYO MAGACA SUURE DIR

Name Dir and its meaning
Dir is a clan family with various clans in Djibouti, Ethiopia, throughout Somalia and northeast Kenya. The Gadabuursi are a section of the Dir living in northwest Somalia and adjoining parts of Djibouti and Ethiopia, and speaking Northern Common Somali. The Isxaaq are a major clan grouping in northest Somalia, some in Djibouti and Ethiopia, speaking Northern Common Somali.


All Somalis agree on one thing: that is the Dir are the most ancient and first born of the noble Somali clans. Both foe and friend, Arab and Western writers and all Somali agree in the distant past the Somali Dir were the establishers of Somali nation , its culture and ancient norms. The use the epithet “ Dir Cawslafil ”or Dir is as old as the grass.
Cultural legacy of the Dir:


Name Dir and its meaning
Dir is a clan family with various clans in Djibouti, Ethiopia, throughout Somalia and northeast Kenya. The Gadabuursi are a section of the Dir living in northwest Somalia and adjoining parts of Djibouti and Ethiopia, and speaking Northern Common Somali. The Isxaaq are a major clan grouping in northest Somalia, some in Djibouti and Ethiopia, speaking Northern Common Somali.




All Somalis agree on one thing: that is the Dir are the most ancient and first born of the noble Somali clans. Both foe and friend, Arab and Western writers and all Somali agree in the distant past the Somali Dir were the establishers of Somali nation , its culture and ancient norms. The use the epithet “ Dir Cawslafil ”or Dir is as old as the grass.
Cultural legacy of the Dir:

RICHARD BURTON ON DIR AND HAWIYE DAROOD

The old and pagan genealogies still known to the Somal, are Dirr, Aydur, Darud, and, according to some, Hawiyah. Dirr and Aydur, of whom nothing is certainly known but the name10, are the progenitors of the northern Somal, the Eesa, Gudabirsi, Ishak, and Bursuk tribes. The Hawiyah are doubtless of ancient and pagan origin; they call all Somal except themselves Hashiyah, and thus claim to be equivalent to the rest of the nation. Some attempt, as usual, to establish a holy origin, deriving themselves like the Shaykhash from the Caliph Abubekr: the antiquity, and consequently the Pagan origin of the Hawiyah are proved by its present widely scattered state; it is a powerful tribe in the Mijjarthayn country, and yet is found in the hills of Harar.
10 Lieut. Cruttenden applies the term Edoor (Aydur) to the descendants of Ishak, the children of Gerhajis, Awal, and Jailah. His informants and mine differ, therefore, toto coelo. According to some, Dirr was the father of Aydur; others make Dirr (it has been written Tir and Durr) to have been the name of the Galla family into which Shaykh Ishak married.

The old and pagan genealogies still known to the Somal, are Dirr, Aydur, Darud, and, according to some, Hawiyah. Dirr and Aydur, of whom nothing is certainly known but the name10, are the progenitors of the northern Somal, the Eesa, Gudabirsi, Ishak, and Bursuk tribes. Darud Jabarti 11 bin Ismail bin Akil (or Ukayl) is supposed by his descendants to have been a noble Arab from El Hejaz, who, obliged to flee his country, was wrecked on the north-east coast of Africa, where he married a daughter of the Hawiyah tribe: rival races declare him to have been a Galla slave, who, stealing the Prophet’s slippers12, was dismissed with the words, Inna-tarad-na-hu (verily we have rejected him): hence his name Tarud ([Arabic]) or Darud, the Rejected.13 The etymological part of the story is, doubtless, fabulous; it expresses, however, the popular belief that the founder of the eastward or windward tribes, now extending over the seaboard from Bunder Jedid to Ras Hafun, and southward from the sea to the Webbes14, was a man of ignoble origin. The children of Darud are now divided into two great bodies: “Harti” is the family name of the Dulbahanta, Ogadayn, Warsangali and Mijjarthayn, who call themselves sons of Harti bin Kombo bin Kabl Ullah bin Darud: the other Darud tribes not included under that appellation are the Girhi, Berteri, Marayhan, and Bahabr Ali. The Hawiyah are doubtless of ancient and pagan origin; they call all Somal except themselves Hashiyah, and thus claim to be equivalent to the rest of the nation. Some attempt, as usual, to establish a holy origin, deriving themselves like the Shaykhash from the Caliph Abubekr: the antiquity, and consequently the Pagan origin of the Hawiyah are proved by its present widely scattered state; it is a powerful tribe in the Mijjarthayn country, and yet is found in the hills of Harar.

The Somal, therefore, by their own traditions, as well as their strongly marked physical peculiarities, their customs, and their geographical position, may be determined to be a half-caste tribe, an offshoot of the great Galla race, approximated, like the originally Negro-Egyptian, to the Caucasian type by a steady influx of pure Asiatic blood.






Imama Ahmad's conquest of the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia (1529-1543)
Laba go’ad
Shimbra Kure el 1529
Shiekh. Awbarkhadle
Guudka
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Saan cade
Rooble rulers
Madar pivot
Afarta iyo Adeerka faal ku dayasho Dir 4ta iyo Digaale adeerka
Xigsin-dumaal-

 Descent or birth origin- neefkaa dirkiisu wuxuu ka soo jeedaa…..
 People Dirkii hore ama dadkii hore
 Man of noble character and who is bold warrior waa nin dhiiran
 Dhiiraa iyo dhalaa man and women
 Beenadir and Diraa dhabe
 Digaale Digil connection through Ali and Dir
 Dances Dadku waa Dir iyo Darood Heehaa
 Aideed’s book
 Daarod ku boqor
 Gabeeygii Guba
 Awbuube, Aw barkhadle, iyo Aw barre
 Dire Asse iyo Dire Ade myth
 Oda Ali Afar connection
 Xarla, jaarso, noole, and oromization
 Ogadeen/ Darood beliefs of land being land of Dir
 Hadraawi – a northern poet I don’t want to name and his hawiye encounter.

The Afar refer themselves to the First Afaar and Booran (oldest Oromo group who have a moiety called Diire , but when with Dir they defer to them and say we are the first after Diire.


Pagan Dir of Booran, Watusi, and Chadic tribes as attested to Hussien Habre. Sambuura Ariel and Iraqw of Tanzania. Samaale associated with Hawiye Saransoor like Digoodi, Garre, and Ajuuran. Ina Iigare Dir assisted Sacad after appeal to their Dirness. Muuse Galaal, Igaal, and Geele Northern Dir.

Laffeko lafaako lafaakona lafeeke, Dirre angafe Boorantu, angfa aadamu.

The Aaba Hussien Dir connection



According to local traditions, the Dir constitute an important ancestral tribe of all the modern Somali. As the most ancient inhabitants of the region ...
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... who, together with the Isa, form the largest group of the ancient Dir clan-family. 'This Chronicle opens', Lewis tells us, 'with an account of the wars ...
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... 96, 133; Ethiopia 96, 133, 139, iBo;Mali 381, 382, 395, 396, 508; North Africa 255, 257, 381, 3«*. 395. 396 Dir clan-family 138, 153 Dire Dawa 140 ...
The Cambridge History of Africa
By J. D. Fage, Roland Oliver,CAMBRIDGE HISTORY
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MAGAC DIREED WAA SIDA AY SUURE SHEEGEEN WAA MAGAC FIR, DAD, ASAL, AMA SINJI MACNIHIISU YAHAY. WAA MAGAC MACNIHIISU YAHAY RAG, NIN, GEESI SIDA DHIIRIID. WAA MAGAC DAD AMA FARAC LAGU TILMAAMO OO GABAYADA WAXAAD KU MAQAASHAA GABYAAGOO LEH “DIRKII HORE WAXA AY ORAN JIREEN AMA DADKII HORE”. WAA MAGAC ASAL U DHIGMA. SIDAAS WAXAA LAGA HAYAA ODEYAASHII HORE EE SUURE (CABDALLE IYO QUBEYSBA) OO AHAA QAAR MAGACA ABKOOD AAD U JECLAA ILAA HEERNA MAGACOODA DOORTAY IN AY HOOS U DHIGAAN SI KA AABAHOOD DIR LOO MAQLO.

SUURE MARKA MUXUU YAHAY MACNIHIISA

MAGACA QURUXDA BADAN EE LABAAD WAA MAGACA SUURE. SUURE WAXAA LA YIRI WAXAA DHALAY ODEYGII MAHE DIREED ISAGOO DA,DIISU TAHAY XAWAALI 80 SANO JIR AYAA MAXAMMED XINIFTIRE OO MALIN TIMAHA U JARAYA ABHII KU YIRI AABE WAAN GABOOBEY BAAD TIRAAHDAA XOOGA LAAKIN MAAD GABOOBIN ISAGOO KA YAABAY TAMARTA IYO MURUQA QADAADKA MAHE DIR KA MUUQDA. QADADKIISI UU XIIRAYAY INTUU EEGAY AYUU YIRI AABE GABAR AYAAN KUU DOONEYNAA WALEE INAADAN GABOOBINE.

GABAR 26 SANO JIRTA OO TALISO LA ORAN JIRAY AYAA LOO DHISAY ODEYGII MAAHE DIREED OO SIDEETENKII KOR U DHAAFAY. WUXUU DHALAY WIIL UU KU DARDAARMAY IN UU DHAXLI DOON XIKMADIISA WUXUUNA U BAXSHAY SUURE. KAMADA SUURE BARIGII HORE WAXAA LOOGU’ YEERI JIRAY RUUXA MASKAXDA BADAN, MAANKA SAN, AMA FAHMADA IYO XIKMAD BADAN.

KALMADA SUURE WAXAA LOO ISTICMAALAA SIDAAN HORE UGU QEEXAY IN KASTOO AF SOMALIGU ISBAD BADALAY. TUSAALE AHAAN:

SUURTA GAL MAAHA MARKAAD TIRAAHDID WAA WAXAAN AQLIGA GALI KARIN. TAASO KUU CADEYNEYSA KAMADA ASAL AHAN MASKAXDA AYAY KA TIMID

TUSAALE KALE: MARKAAN DHANO HEBEL ” KIBIR IYO SUURE BADANAA” MACNAHEEDU WAA ” QOF KIBIR IYO AQLI BADAN ISKU DARSADA QOFKU. CALAA KULI XAAL SUURE OO AH MASKAX BADAN MACNEHEEDUNA KA SOO JEEDO “SUURTO GAL-AQLI GAL AMA MASKAX- AYAA LOOGU WAN QALAY SUURE. MAHE DIREEDNA WUXUU SHEEGAY IN UU SUURE UU NOQON DOONO XIKMADIISI OO KOOBAN.


QURBA JOOGTA INGIRIISKA JECEL HA KU INDHO KUULATO “SUURE MACNIHIISA ” OO ENGLISH VERSION AH. MAGAC DIREEDNA MA JIREEN SUURE LAAN



Dear Brothers

I would love to thank you first for the wonderful forum. We need someone to promote and rise our awareness about the illustrious Dir clan.

The orgin of the Suure name

Let me add an old story about the orgin of the Suure name. As we all know by now Suure was the youngest son of Mahe Dir and he was the last one born to Mahe Dir shortly before he passed away, may Allah bless his soul.

It was said by the Dir of old, Mahe Dir one day looked at his youngest son and named him “Suure” which means in old Somali the “Wise one” or literally one who was very intelligent. Know unfortunately, this word is extinct and obsolete in modern Somali,but Suure meant “Intelligent”, Wise as in Somali we use today:

“Kibir iyo Suure badanaa”, which literally means one is full of pride and intelligency. Also the name “suure” is used in the Somali phrase:

“Maskax iyo Suure badne”

“Suurto Gal maaha”

“Waa Suuro gal ama waa aqli gal”

Therefore, in the old Somali spoken by the Dir Suure use to mean intelligent one or one who is wise. Now, this is why the Dir elders of Mudug used to say, “Suure” meant the wise one and it is the nick name given to the last born of Mahe Dir.


Mansha Allah!

Maansha Allah! Bravo! Bravo!

This is very interesting and your wonderful analysis is mind boggling.

Honestly, I have never asked or even pondered about what the heck “Suure” meant. Isn’t it a bitch, the Suure whether Qubeys or Abdaalle are obsessed with the name Dir, but yet no one ever pondered or told us what Suure meant.

I think the sad thing about the Suure of Mudug region is they forgot their own name, Suure.

Why is it that no one uses the Suure name? Why are we so obsessed with Dir, Dir, Dir and more Dir.

Don’t misunderstand me, I quite frankly love my “Dirness”,but why is it we dont even know out own Suure name and its history?

I think it is a damn shame and disgusting the Suure do not use their wonderful name. Everybody in Somali will tell you they know Qubeys, fiqi muhumad, fiqi walaal, agoon, fiqi yahye, nacadoor, dabac,ahmed farah, Etc. But the name Suure is rarely heard.

I can tell you what Dir means and we all heard that ten thousand times. That freakin Dir means:

1)the ancestor “fir” ama “ab” ama Farac.

2) we heard Dir means “Dhiiri” boldness, Dirir “Worrior”.

3)Dir means “genetically related to” like when somalis said, “neefkan Dirkiisu wuxuu ka soo jeedaa”

4)Dir also means “people”, “race” or as in old poetry Dir meant People or man.

But I have never heard anybody explain Suure and its meaning and I love your wonderful insight.

It is extremely neat, fantastic and brillent periodly.

You are wise my brother and you, yourself must be some type of a Suure”wise one”, Genius, intelligent, and insightful.
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Kibir iyo Suure badanaa”, which literally means one is full of pride and intelligency. Also the name “suure” is used in the Somali phrase:

“Maskax iyo Suure badne”

“Suurto Gal maaha”

“Waa Suuro gal ama waa aqli gal”

Therefore, in the old Somali spoken by the Dir Suure use to mean intelligent one or one who is wise. Now, this is why the Dir elders of Mudug used to say, “Suure” meant the wise one and it is the nick name given to the last born of Mahe Dir.


MAGACA NACADOOR

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