different between boma vs soma

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

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?so?m?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s??m?/
• Hyphenation: so?ma

Etymology 1

From New Latin, from Ancient Greek ???? (sôma, “body”).

Noun

soma (plural somas or somata)

1. (anatomy) The whole axial portion of an animal, including the head, neck, trunk, and tail.
2. The corporeal body, as distinguished from the psyche or soul and the pneuma or spirit.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:body

3. (cytology) The bulbous part of a neuron, containing the cell nucleus.

Derived terms

Related terms

• prosoma
• somato-
• -some

Translations

Etymology 2

From Sanskrit ??? (sóma), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *sáwmas, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sáwmas, from *su-. Doublet of haoma.

Noun

soma (uncountable)

1. (hinduism) A ritual drink in ancient Vedic and continuing Hindu culture, obtained by pressing the Soma plant.
   • 2006, Karen Armstrong, The Great Transformation, Atlantic Books 2007, p. 82:

     Once he had drunk the intoxicating soma, he experienced an ascent to the gods without having to die a violent death, as in the old ritual.

2. (by extension) Any kind of intoxicating drug.

Alternative forms

• Soma

Related terms

• haoma

Anagrams

• -omas, Amos, MOAS, MOAs, Samo, maos, moas, omas, soam

Dutch

Etymology

Clipping of Somaliër.

Noun

soma ? (plural soma's, diminutive somaatje n)

1. (sometimes offensive, slang) a Somalian.

Fijian

Adverb

soma

1. often, frequently

   Synonym: wasoma

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *soma, possibly borrowed from Proto-Germanic *s?maz, *s?miz (“suitable”). Related to Karelian šoma, Livvi ?oma, Ludian ?oma and Veps tšoma (with irregular initial consonants due to the affectionate nature of the word).

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

soma (comparative somempi, superlative somin)

1. pretty
2. cute, sweet

Declension

Derived terms

• somasti

Anagrams

• Asmo, mosa, osma

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese soma (“top”) (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin summa (“top”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?som?]

Noun

soma f (plural somas)

1. ridge (formed besides a furrow)

   Synonyms: lombeiro, márdea, mesa, sorrello

References

• “soma” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “soma” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “soma” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “soma” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “soma” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

Etymology 1

From Late Latin sauma, from alteration of Latin sagma, from Ancient Greek ????? (ságma). Compare the doublet salma (“corpse”). Cognate to French somme (“packsaddle”).

Noun

soma f (plural some)

1. the load borne by a pack animal
2. the measure of the capacity of a given animal to bear a load
3. (poetic) a weight

Derived terms

• animale da soma
• bestia da soma
• someggiare

Etymology 2

Borrowed from New Latin, from Ancient Greek ???? (sôma).

Noun

soma m (plural somi)

1. (medicine) soma

Derived terms

• somatico
• somite

Anagrams

• Amos

Italiot Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (sôma).

Noun

soma n

1. body

Japanese

Romanization

soma

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Latvian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old East Slavic ???? (suma) (compare Russian ????? (sumá)), itself borrowed (via Polish) from Old High German soum (“burden”) (compare German Saum), from Ancient Greek ????? (ságma) (whence also Latin sagma, sauma (“burden saddle, burden”)). The borrowing happened in the 13th century, when Old East Slavic ? was still pronounced as [o?]. The word soma is first attested in 17th-century dictionaries with meanings such as “bread sack”, “bag”, “travel bag”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [s??ma]

Noun

soma f (4th declension)

1. bag, pack (fabric, leather, etc. object with straps or handles, used for carrying small objects, groceries, etc.)

2. (biology, anatomy) pouch (skin fold in marsupials to keep a newborn baby)

Declension

Derived terms

• ce?asoma
• mugursoma
• rokassoma

See also

• maiss

Etymology 2

See soms.

Noun

soma m

1. genitive singular form of soms

References

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese soma, from Latin summa.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: so?ma

Noun

soma f (plural somas)

1. (arithmetic) sum (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
2. sum (quantity of money)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from New Latin, from Ancient Greek ???? (sôma, “body”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?so.m?/
• Hyphenation: so?ma

Noun

soma m (plural somas)

1. (anatomy, cytology) soma

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Sanskrit ??? (sóma), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sauma, from Proto-Indo-European *sew(h)-.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?s?.m?/
• Hyphenation: so?ma

Noun

soma m (plural somas)

1. (religion) soma

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: so?ma

Verb

soma

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of somar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of somar

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French sommer.

Verb

a soma (third-person singular present someaz?, past participle somat) 1st conj.

1. to summon

Conjugation

Rwanda-Rundi

Verb

-soma (infinitive gusoma, perfective -somye)

1. to read

Swahili

Etymology

Of Bantu origin.

Pronunciation

Verb

-soma (infinitive kusoma)

1. to read
2. to study

Conjugation

Derived terms

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -somea
  • Causative: -somesha (“make read, educate”)
  • Passive: -somwa
  • Stative: -someka (“be legible”)

• Nominal derivations:
  • msoma (“reader”)
  • msomaji (“reader”)
  • somo (“lesson”)

Swazi

Verb

-sóma

1. to court, to flirt, to date

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Turkish

Noun

soma

1. dative singular of som