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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

Etymology

From New Latin noma from Latin nom? from Ancient Greek ???? (nom?, “spreading (of sores)”) from ???? (ném?, “feed, devour, spread (of sores)”)

Noun

noma (uncountable)

1. (medicine) A gangrenous disease leading to tissue destruction of the face, especially the mouth and cheek.

Translations

Anagrams

• Amon, Mano, Mona, Noam, Oman, Onam, mano, maon, moan, mona

Asturian

Verb

noma

1. inflection of nomar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Italian

Verb

noma

1. inflection of nomare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• mano
• Oman

Japanese

Romanization

noma

1. R?maji transcription of ??
2. R?maji transcription of ??

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?no.m?/

Noun

noma ? (Northumbria)

1. Alternative form of nama

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

• nama

Noun

noma m

1. name

Portuguese

Noun

noma f (uncountable)

1. (medicine) noma (gangrenous disease of the mouth and cheeks)

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

noma (n class, plural noma)

1. problem, trouble

Swazi

Conjunction

nóma

1. or
2. whether
3. even if

Vilamovian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Noun

n?ma m (plural noma)

1. name

Derived terms

• nomastaog

Zulu

Etymology

From na- +? uma.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /nó?ma/

Conjunction

nóma

1. although, even though, even if
2. or

References

• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972) , “noma”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, ?ISBN: “noma (3.9)”