Glossary Term
Risk: Medium- Approved rendering
- Quruumaha
- Transliteration
- koo-roo-MAH-hah
- Rejected alternatives
- gaalada (unbelievers/infidels, an Islamic religious-legal category with strong pejorative force in Somali usage)
Gentiles
Quruumaha (‘the nations,’ i.e. non-Jews) is the ethnically neutral Bible term. Gaalada carries an especially strong pejorative charge in colloquial Somali and would import an entirely different, religiously loaded boundary line than Paul’s Jew/Gentile distinction.
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