different between boma vs oma

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

Borrowed from German Oma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o?m?/

Noun

oma (plural omas)

1. (among people of German ancestry) grandmother, grandma.

See also

• baba

Anagrams

• Amo, Amo., MAO, MOA, Mao, mao, moa

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o?.ma?/
• Hyphenation: oma

Etymology

Likely stemming from grootma, a word that young children often mispronounce. Cognate to German Oma.

Noun

oma f (plural oma's, diminutive omaatje n)

1. (colloquial) grandma, granny, nan

   Synonym: grootmoeder

2. old woman

Descendants

• ? Sranan Tongo: oma

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *oma. Cognate to Finnish oma, Livonian umm, Votic õma and Northern Sami oapmi. Compare also Udmurt ???? (umoj, “good, fitting, right”) and Komi-Zyrian ?? (em, “exists”). Possibly an old derivation from the copula - olema.

Adjective

oma (genitive oma, partitive oma)

1. own
2. (military) friendly

Declension

Noun

oma (genitive oma, partitive oma)

1. (military, usually in the plural) a friendly

Declension

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *oma. Cognate to Estonian oma, Livonian umm, Votic õma and Northern Sami oapmi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?om?/, [?o?m?]
• Rhymes: -om?
• Syllabification: o?ma

Adjective

oma (comparative omempi, superlative omin)

1. own
2. (military) friendly

Declension

Derived terms

• adjectives: ominainen
• nouns: omainen, omaisuus, omanto
• verbs: omaksua, omata, omia, omistaa

Compounds

Noun

oma

1. (military, usually in the plural) friendly (someone/s on the same side)

   Älä ammu, ne ovat omia.

   Don't shoot, they are friendlies.

Declension

See also

• ystävyysottelu

Anagrams

• moa

Haitian Creole

Noun

oma

1. lobster

Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *oma. Cognates include Finnish oma and Estonian oma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?oma/

Adjective

oma (genitive oman, partitive ommaa)

1. own

Inflection

References

• Vitalij Chernyavskij (2005) Ižoran keel (Ittseopastaja)?^[1]

Karao

Noun

oma

1. mountainside garden

Karelian

Adjective

oma

1. own

Kirikiri

Noun

oma

1. (Faia) tongue

Synonyms

• abla (Kirikiri)

Further reading

• Heljä & Duane Clouse, Kirikiri and the Western Lakes Plains Languages (1993)

Laboya

Noun

oma

1. garden

References

• Rina, A. Dj.; Kabba, John Lado B. (2011) , “oma”, in Kamus Bahasa Lamboya, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat [Dictionary of Lamboya Language, West Sumba Regency], Waikabubak: Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat, page 75

Ladin

Noun

oma f (plural omans)

1. mother

Lala (South Africa)

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-j??ma.

Verb

-óma

1. to become dry

Latvian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old East Slavic ??? (um?, “mind, intellect”) (cf. Russian ?? (um, “mind, intellect, wit”)), cognate with Lithuanian aumuõ (“understanding, notion, intellect”), genitive aumeñs. This word was borrowed into Latvian before the 13th century, while Old East Slavic ? was still close to [o] in pronunciation. It conserved its original meaning (“mind,” “understanding”) well into the 19th century; the modern sense was an innovation introduced by Atis Kronvalds.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [u?ma]

Noun

oma f (4th declension)

1. mood (mental or emotional state)

Declension

Derived terms

• omul?gs, omul?gums
• omul?ba

References

Ludian

Adjective

oma

1. own

Maori

Verb

oma

1. run, race, flee, escape, move quickly, run away

Murui Huitoto

Etymology

From o +? -ma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??.ma]

Noun

oma

1. brother-in-law (husband of a sister; to a female)
2. cousin-in-law (husband of a female cousin; to a female)

References

• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.?^[2], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis)

Northern Ndebele

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-j??ma.

Verb

-óma

1. to become dry

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Northern Sotho

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-j??ma.

Verb

oma

1. to be dry

Sotho

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-j??ma.

Verb

oma

1. to be dry

Southern Ndebele

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-j??ma.

Verb

-ôma

1. to become dry

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch oma.

Noun

oma

1. grandmother

References

• SIL International, Sranan Tongo – English Dictionary

Swazi

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-j??ma.

Verb

-oma

1. to become dry

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Tswana

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-j??ma.

Verb

oma

1. to be dry

Volapük

Pronoun

oma

1. (genitive singular of om) "his"

Synonyms

• omik

Xhosa

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-j??ma.

Verb

-ôma

1. to become dry

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Zulu

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-j??ma.

Verb

-ôma

1. to become dry
2. to become thirsty

Inflection

References

• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972) , “oma”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, ?ISBN: “oma (6.3)”