British Asians! How do I spell "Kussam"?
Posted by GeneralAddress2614@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 23 comments
I'm actually a Paddystani š®šŖšµš° but grew up in a traditional British household.
How do I spell the word "Kussam" what all my Asian mates used at school to mean honest. What language is it?
This topic came up with Anne Hathaway saying Inshallah as I've not heard the word "Kussam" used by anyone else in many years but it is stuck into my daily vocabulary.
thegroucho@reddit
I'm not Asian and off topic, but Paddystani made me chuckle.
Brave_Assumption6@reddit
It basically means "from the land of Paddy"
GeneralAddress2614@reddit (OP)
There's a bombay potato joke to be made here but I'm bot smart enough.Ā
thegroucho@reddit
Keep them coming, this was a joke in itself.
My miserable day is getting better.
MojeJmenoJe@reddit
My sister's children are half Irish and half Pakistani. She sometimes refers to them as "PakiPaddies", I imagine that wouldn't go down well with many. Her attitude is claim the slurs, like gay people calling themselves "queers" and US black people callling themselves "Ns".
cgknight1@reddit
Em... this mean something else in Arabic so be careful how you use it - especially if you meet a man and his mother...
getoutmywayatonce@reddit
Very glad someone mentioned it š¤£
Some-Ad5770@reddit
Kasam/kasmay - meaning āI swearā
The south Asian diaspora tend to say āwallahā or āwallahiā more often now due to arabisation of their vernacular, thatās why you probably donāt hear it as much now.
Educational_Ad2737@reddit
Kasam comes from Arabic anyway . Wallah is swearing on god specially so Muslims use it while is jus to swear
crispycat40@reddit
Betasquad say āwallahiā all of the time. I had to google it to see what they meant.
RockasaurusFlex@reddit
I think they derive it from the Arabic too, since they share that culture from the East African/Saudi connected region.
Some-Ad5770@reddit
Showing my age as I donāt know who the beta squad are lol.
crispycat40@reddit
Theyāre YouTubers. Iām probably twice the age of their normal viewers, but I find their videos mindlessly entertaining. Sometimes itās nice to turn off the real world.
crispycat40@reddit
Niko was on The Traitors
Revolutionary-Cow506@reddit
could be the arabic word 'qasam'
Educational_Ad2737@reddit
Pretty sure thatās where it entered the language from . Likely form Arabic to Farsi to Urdu/hindi . All means th same thing
BrexitVoter@reddit
So I'm English and my Asian mates called me Eminem ( if you can guess the joke)
One of their wives corrected me that it's actually "Kasme"
NoDrama430@reddit
It'sĀ KasamĀ and it doesn't mean honest, it means I swear or an oath. You use it to insist that you'reĀ beingĀ honest. But Kasam is, I'm telling the truth. It's originally an Arabic word that made its way into many South Asian languages.
GovernmentNo2720@reddit
Itās ākasamā which means āI swear.ā
GeneralAddress2614@reddit (OP)
That's the one!Ā
lfcsupkings321@reddit
Origin: Taken from the Urdu word qasam (oath), often used as Kasam-se.
Urdu/Hindi: Borrowed it from Persian. In these languages, it became a common way to say "I swear" or "I promise".
1whoisconcerned@reddit
No idea. My dad never taught me.
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