different between boma vs coma

English

Etymology

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

Noun

boma (countable and uncountable, plural bomas) (East Africa)

1. An enclosure usually made of thorn bushes, and latterly of steel fencing, for protection from marauders.
   • 2004, J H Patterson, The Man Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures, Kessinger Publishing, page 17,

     Orders had been given for the entrance to the boma to be blocked up, and accordingly we listened in the expectation of hearing the lion force his way through the bushes with his prey. As a matter of fact the doorway had not been closed and while we were wondering what the lion could be doing inside the boma for so long, he was outside reconnoitering our position.

   • 1993, Cordelia Dykes Owens, The Eye of the Elephant, Houghton Mifflin Books, ?ISBN, page 91,

     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.

   • 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.

2. A stockade made of bushes and thorns.
   • 2003, Harold Brookfield, Helen Parsons, and Muriel Brookfield, Agrodiversity, United Nations University Press, page 108,

     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.
   • 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.

4. A hut.
   • 2004, Jacyee Aniagolu-Johnson, Mikela, iUniverse, page 3,

     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.

5. A military or police post or magistracy.
   • 5 February 2004, Zambia: Muyumbwe Boma Needs Police Post (allAfrica.com):

     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.

6. A type of fertilizer rich in animal dung.
   • Soil fertility regeneration in Kenya (PDF):

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

7. (uncountable) A method of composting.
   • 2001, HDRA - the organic organisation, Composting in the Tropics II, page 16 (PDF):

     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.

See also

• kraal

Anagrams

• MOAB, MOBA, Mabo, Moab, ambo, moAb

Chichewa

Etymology

Borrowed from Swahili boma (“enclosure, military or police outpost”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??o.ma/

Noun

boma 5 (plural maboma 6)

1. government
2. government office or building, or zone where such buildings are located
3. one of the districts of Malawi

Irish

Noun

boma m sg

1. genitive singular of boim

Mutation

Further reading

• "boma" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Italian

Etymology

From French bôme, from Dutch boom.

Noun

boma m (plural bomi)

1. (nautical) boom

Anagrams

• ambo

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?ma/

Noun

boma

1. inflection of bom:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative dual

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From English bomb.

Noun

boma m (genitive singular boma, plural bomaichean)

1. bomb (explosive)

Derived terms

• boma atamach (“atomic bomb”)

Further reading

• “boma” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.

Slavomolisano

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian bomba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bôm?/

Noun

boma f

1. bomb
   • 2010, Luigi Peca, “La guerre à Acquaviva”:

Declension

References

• Breu, W., Mader Skender, M. B. & Piccoli, G. 2013. Oral texts in Molise Slavic (Italy): Acquaviva Collecroce. In Adamou, E., Breu, W., Drettas, G. & Scholze, L. (eds.). 2013. EuroSlav2010: Elektronische Datenbank bedrohter slavischer Varietäten in nichtslavophonen Ländern Europas – Base de données électronique de variétés slaves menacées dans des pays européens non slavophones. Konstanz: Universität / Paris: Lacito (Internet Publication).

Swahili

Etymology

Of uncertain origin, though almost certainly not from an acronym of "British Overseas Military Attachment", which is a folk etymology.

Pronunciation

Noun

boma (ma class, plural maboma)

1. enclosure for cattle, kraal
2. fortified encampment or settlement
3. fortified military or police outpost, fort or fortress

Descendants

• ? English: boma

Zia

Noun

boma

1. knee

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??m?/
• (US) enPR: k??m?, IPA^(key): /?ko?m?/
• Homophone: comber (in non-rhotic accents)

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???? (kôma, “deep sleep”).

Noun

coma (plural comas)

1. A state of unconsciousness from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma.

Derived terms

Related terms

• comatose

Translations

See also

• persistent vegetative state
• brain death

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin coma (“hair of the head”), from Ancient Greek ???? (kóm?, “hair”).

Noun

coma (plural comae)

1. (astronomy) A cloud of dust surrounding the nucleus of a comet.
2. (optics) A defect characterized by diffuse, pear-shaped images that in an ideal image would appear as points.
3. (botany) A tuft or bunch, such as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree, a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant, or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds.

Translations

Anagrams

• OAMC, camo, maco

Asturian

Verb

coma

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of comer

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?ko.m?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ko.ma/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???? (kôma, “deep sleep”).

Noun

coma m (plural comes)

1. coma (deep sleep)

Related terms

• comatós

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin comma, from Ancient Greek ????? (kómma).

Noun

coma f (plural comes)

1. comma (punctuation mark)

Derived terms

• cometa
• punt i coma

Etymology 3

From Old Occitan comba, from Medieval Latin comba, from Gaulish *kumba, from Proto-Celtic *kumb? (“valley”).

Noun

coma f (plural comes)

1. combe, cirque

   Synonym: circ

2. An alpine meadow situated between two peaks.

Derived terms

• comella
• comellar

Further reading

• “coma” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “coma” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “coma” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “coma” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ko?.ma?/
• Hyphenation: co?ma
• Rhymes: -o?ma?

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin coma, from Ancient Greek ???? (kôma).

Noun

coma n (plural coma's)

1. coma (state of unconsciousness)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin coma, from Ancient Greek ???? (kóm?).

Noun

coma f (plural coma's, diminutive comaatje n)

1. coma (head of a comet)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.ma/
• Homophone: comas

Noun

coma m (plural comas)

1. coma (state of unconsciousness)
   • 1825, Etienne-Marin Bailly, Traité anatomico-pathologique des fièvres intermittentes simples et pernicieuses

     Le coma suivi de symptômes convulsifs, est moins dangereux que lorsqu'il leur succède, à moins que dans ce dernier cas il soit nerveux, et que le malade se réveille facilement, on exécute, sinon des mouvements volontaires, au moins des mouvements automatiques.

Derived terms

• comater
• comateux

Further reading

• “coma” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Verb

coma

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of comer

Interlingua

Noun

coma (uncountable)

1. coma

Related terms

• comatose

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?.ma/
• Rhymes: -?ma
• Hyphenation: cò?ma

Etymology 1

From Latin coma (“hair of the head”), borrowed from Ancient Greek ???? (kóm?).

Noun

coma f (plural come)

1. (literary, obsolete) Synonym of chioma
2. (optics, uncountable) coma

References

• coma¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

From Latin comma, from Ancient Greek ????? (kómma).

Noun

coma m (plural comi)

1. (typography) Alternative form of comma (“punctuation mark”)

References

• coma² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 3

From Ancient Greek ???? (kôma, “deep sleep”).

Noun

coma m (invariable)

1. coma (deep sleep)

Related terms

• comatoso

References

• coma³ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• camo, moca

Ladin

Noun

coma f (plural comes)

1. (Val di Fassa, law) subsection
2. (Val di Fassa, orthography) comma

   Synonym: vìrgola

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???? (kóm?, “hair of the head”), which is of uncertain origin and is sometimes linked to ????? (“to care for (in the sense of hair)”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ko.ma/, [?k?mä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ko.ma/, [?k??m?]

Noun

coma f (genitive comae); first declension

1. The hair of the head.

   Synonym: cr?nis

2. foliage

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• com?tus
• comula

Descendants

References

• coma in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• coma in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• coma in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• coma in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• coma in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: co?ma

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???? (kôma, “deep sleep”).

Noun

coma m (plural comas)

1. coma, state of unconsciousness

Etymology 2

From Latin coma.

Noun

coma f (plural comas)

1. abundant hair of the head

   Synonym: cabeleira

2. mane
3. (astronomy) comet coma

See also

• crina

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

coma

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of comer
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of comer
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of comer
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of comer

Further reading

• “coma” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “coma” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “coma” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “coma” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2021.
• “coma” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “coma” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish cummae, from Proto-Indo-European *kom-smiyo-, from *kom (“beside, with, by”) + *sem- (“one, as one”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?om?/

Adjective

coma

1. indifferent, unconcerned

2. reckless, careless
3. or expressing dislike or even hate when used with le

Derived terms

• coma-co-dhiù

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “cummae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?koma/, [?ko.ma]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin comma.

Noun

coma f (plural comas)

1. comma
2. (church) misericord
3. (music) section

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???? (kôma, “deep sleep”).

Noun

coma m (plural comas)

1. coma

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Latin coma.

Noun

coma f (plural comas)

1. (rare) mane

   Synonym: crin

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

coma

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of comer.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of comer.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of comer.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of comer.

Further reading

• “coma” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

References

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English comma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?ma/

Noun

coma m (plural comas)

1. comma

   Synonym: atalnod

Mutation