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boma

noun

Etymology

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

  1. borrowed from boma

Definitions

  1. An enclosure usually made of thorn bushes, and latterly of steel fencing, for protection…

    An enclosure usually made of thorn bushes, and latterly of steel fencing, for protection from marauders.

    • Carrying the hot water kettle, Mark follows the footpath through the dark camp to the boma. Surrounded by tall grass the boma is a three-sided structure of sticks and reeds standing at the edge of Marula Puku.

  2. A stockade made of bushes and thorns.

    • the area has three main groups. The Wamasi and Waarushaare still settled on the boma system where the clan settle in one cluster called a boma comprised of several houses enclosed in a fence leaving the centre open for keeping livestock.

  3. A hide.

  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. A hut.

      • The exotic beauty of our Masaailand is a marvel to our creator, she thought as she stepped back into her boma, a typical Masaai hut built with grass, dry sticks and twigs and covered with cow dung for insulation.

    2. A military or police post or magistracy.

      • GWEMBE district police officer-in-charge Adams Gondwe has appealed to Government to put up a police post in Muyumbwe boma to replace one that was washed away by floods last year.

    3. A type of fertilizer rich in animal dung.

      • The cattle are usually corralled overnight which enables farmers to collect farmyard or boma manure.

    4. A method of composting in which animals are bedded on the material before it is used,…

      A method of composting in which animals are bedded on the material before it is used, allowing it to gather urine and dung.

      • The Boma method is used on farms where there are animals (cows, sheep, goats, rabbits, chickens), which are kept in enclosures where droppings are concentrated.

    5. A member of a Bantu ethnic group of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

    6. Their language.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA