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Meaning 1
Their language.
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boma
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noun
Meaning 2
An enclosure usually made of thorn bushes, and latterly of steel fencing, for protection from marauders.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Africa, East, countable, uncountable
Examples
- 2003, Rosie Woodroffe, Simon Thirgood, Alan and Rabinowitz, People and Wildlife, Conflict Or Co-existence?, Cambridge University Press, page 298, Recent replacement of rolled mesh with bomas made of portable, flexible reinforced mesh panels have nearly eliminated predation.
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noun
Meaning 3
A stockade made of bushes and thorns.
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Usage: Africa, East, countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
A hide.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Africa, East, countable, uncountable
Examples
- 1922, Mary Hastings Bradley, On the Gorilla trail, quoted in Mary Zeiss Strange (editor), Heart Shots: Women write about hunting, Stackpole Books, page 182, You try to arrange the scene so the moonlight will be on the bait with a clear background against which the lion will show up. You pile as much fresh brush as you can on your thicket or boma, as the hiding place is called, for the lion can see as well by day as by night.
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noun
Meaning 5
A hut.
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Usage: Africa, East, countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 6
A military or police post or magistracy.
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Usage: Africa, East, countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 7
A type of fertilizer rich in animal dung.
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Usage: Africa, East, countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 8
A method of composting in which animals are bedded on the material before it is used, allowing it to gather urine and dung.
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Usage: Africa, East, attributive, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 9
A member of a Bantu ethnic group of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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History
Etymology
Borrowed from Swahili boma (“enclosure, fortified outpost”).