English Explanatory Dictionary

boma

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An enclosure usually made of thorn bushes, and latterly of steel fencing, for protection from marauders.
  2. A stockade made of bushes and thorns.
  3. A hide.
  4. A hut.
  5. A military or police post or magistracy.
  6. A type of fertilizer rich in animal dung.
  7. A method of composting in which animals are bedded on the material before it is used, allowing it to gather urine and dung.
noun
  1. A member of a Bantu ethnic group of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
name
  1. Their language.

Word forms

boma bomas

Etymology

Borrowed from Swahili boma (“enclosure, fortified outpost”).

Related words

kraal
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