English Explanatory Dictionary

Boko Haram

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. An Islamist jihadist militant group based in Nigeria but active in adjoining Northwest African countries.

Word forms

Boko Haram

Etymology

From Hausa boko (“fake, often said of Western education”) + haram (“forbidden”), from Arabic حَرَام (ḥarām). Literally, “Western education is forbidden”.

Related words

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