Sample Vocabulary
| Phrase | Translation | Origin |
|---|---|---|
| abbo(u) | wow!; oh! | Turkish |
| aina | police (singular and plural) | Turkish aynasız (meaning mirrorless) |
| ajde | come on; let's go; okay; hurry up; affirmative | Serbo-Croatian hajde or Turkish haydi |
| axa | go; accelerate | Swedish accelerera, "to accelerate" |
| bak | check out; look | Turkish bak, imperative of "to look" |
| baxa | steal (Stockholm) have sex (Malmö) |
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| bazz | sexual intercourse | French, baise(r), "to fuck" |
| bre | expression for exaggeration of a sentence or word | Serbo-Croatian |
| brychan, brushan | my brother; my friend; "bro" | brorsan, colloquial Swedish familiar form of brodern, "the brother" |
| chilla (also softa) | (to) chill; take it easy; to be calm | both variants from English |
| çal (tjall) | to steal | Turkish çalmak (çal=steal, imperative) |
| çok (tjock, chok) | much, very | Turkish |
| ey, eo (ey yao) | hey you! (For attention) | English, Hey you |
| fett | cool; nice; very | Literally Swedish for "fat" Used to emphasize a subsequent word. (noun) |
| flos | money | Arabic |
| gitta | go; get going | Turkish (gitmek) git (go, imperative) |
| guzz / guss | girl | Turkish kız |
| göt | ass; buttocks | Turkish Göt |
| Habibi | lit. darling (used as familiar addressing in Arabic) | Arabic |
| Idiit (Idi-it) | Idiot | Swedish word play |
| -ish/-isch | common word ending | |
| jalla | hurry; get moving | Arabic (abbreviation of "ya Allah") |
| keff | bad, negative | |
| khalas (challas) | enough; stop; let's go | Arabic |
| knatch | small piece of cannabis | possibly from dialectal Swedish knerts, "small piece (of matter)" |
| len | friend; mate | Turkish lan |
| loco | crazy | Spanish |
| mannen | familiar addressing, "hey, man; my man; friend" | Swedish, possibly an English calque |
| para | money | Serbian para < Turkish paralar |
| sho | greeting, can be used as "hello" or "goodbye" (means "what" in arabic). | Arabic |
| shishko | overweight | Turkish Şişko (fat) |
| shuno, shunne, shurda | guy; dude; bloke | |
| soft (adj.) / softa (verb) | cool, good, nice (or calm down if used as a verb) | English |
| tagga | get away | synonymous with gitta |
| wallah | I swear to God | Arabic |
| zingi | black person | Arabic zangi/zingi, originally "Zanzibar native", later evolved into term for black people |
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