different between bona vs boma

English

Alternative forms

• bonar

Etymology

Borrowed from Sabir bona (“good”), from Italian buono (“good”), from Latin bonus (“good”), from Old Latin duenos (“good”), from Proto-Italic *dwenos (“good”), from Proto-Indo-European *dew- (“to show favor, revere”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??n?/
• Rhymes: -??n?

Adjective

bona (comparative more bona, superlative most bona)

1. (Polari) Good.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:good

Antonyms

• cod (Polari)
• See Thesaurus:bad

Derived terms

• bona omi, bona nochy, bona vardering

Adverb

bona (comparative more bona, superlative most bona)

1. (Polari) Well.

See also

• bona fide

References

Anagrams

• AONB, Abon, Bano, Oban, baon

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?b?.n?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?b?.na/
• Rhymes: -?na

Adjective

bona f

1. feminine singular of bo

Esperanto

Etymology

Common Romance, ultimately from Latin bonus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bo.na/
• Hyphenation: bo?na
• Rhymes: -ona

Adjective

bona (accusative singular bonan, plural bonaj, accusative plural bonajn)

1. good
   • 1910, L. L. Zamenhof, "Proverbaro Esperanta":

     Mensoganto devas havi bonan memoron.

     A liar has to have a good memory.

   Antonym: malbona

Fanagalo

Etymology

From Zulu -bona, from Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

Verb

bona

1. to see

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto bona, French bon, Italian buono, Spanish bueno, ultimately from Latin bonus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bona/

Adjective

bona

1. good

   Antonym: mala

Related terms

Italian

Adjective

bona f

1. feminine singular of bono

Ladin

Adjective

bona f

1. feminine singular of bon

Lala (South Africa)

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

Verb

-bóna

1. to see

Latin

Pronunciation

• bona: (Classical) IPA^(key): /?bo.na/, [?b?nä]
• bona: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?bo.na/, [?b??n?]
• bon?: (Classical) IPA^(key): /?bo.na?/, [?b?nä?]
• bon?: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?bo.na/, [?b??n?]

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective 1

bona

1. inflection of bonus (“good”):
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective 2

bon?

1. ablative feminine singular of bonus

Etymology 2

Feminine of the noun bonus (“a good man”).

Noun 1

bona f (genitive bonae); first declension

1. A good or brave woman.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Noun 2

bon?

1. ablative singular of bona

Etymology 3

Inflection of the noun bonum.

Noun

bona

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of bonum (“a good thing”)

References

• bona in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• bona in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• bona in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• bona in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• bona in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Northern Ndebele

Etymology 1

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

Pronoun

boná

1. they, them; class 2 absolute pronoun.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

Pronoun

boná

1. it; class 14 absolute pronoun.

Etymology 3

From Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

Verb

-bóna

1. to see

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Northern Sotho

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

Verb

bona

1. to see

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *baunu, from Proto-Germanic *baun?, whence also Old Saxon b?na, Old English b?an, Old Norse baun. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?ab?-.

Noun

b?na f

1. (botany) A bean

Descendants

• Middle High German: b?ne
  • Alemannic German: Bone
  • Central Franconian:

    Hunsrik: Bohn

    Luxembourgish: Boun

  • German: Bohne
  • Rhine Franconian: Bohn

    Frankfurterisch: [b?õ?n]

    Pennsylvania German: Bohn, Buhn

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bona/

Noun

bona

1. genitive singular of bun

Mutation

Old Occitan

Adjective

bona f

1. feminine singular of bon

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *baun?, whence also Old English b?an, Old Frisian b?ne, Old High German b?na, Old Norse baun. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?ab?-.

Noun

b?na f

1. (botany) A bean

Descendants

• Middle Low German: bône
  • German Low German: Bohn

    Plautdietsch: Boon

  • ? Westrobothnian: bø?n

Oromo

Noun

bona

1. winter

Phuthi

Etymology 1

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

Pronoun

boná

1. they, them; class 2 absolute pronoun.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

Pronoun

boná

1. it; class 14 absolute pronoun.

Etymology 3

From Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

Verb

-bóna

1. to see

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Rwanda-Rundi

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

Verb

-bóna (infinitive kubóna, perfective -bônye)

1. to see
2. to find, get

Serbo-Croatian

Interjection

bóna (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. (Bosnia, informal) a way of addressing a familiar female

See also

• b?lan

References

• “bona” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Sotho

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

Verb

bona

1. to see

Southern Ndebele

Etymology 1

From Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

Verb

-bôna

1. to see

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

Pronoun

boná

1. they, them; class 2 absolute pronoun.

Etymology 3

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

Pronoun

boná

1. it; class 14 absolute pronoun.

Swazi

Etymology 1

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

Pronoun

boná

1. they, them; class 2 absolute pronoun.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

Pronoun

boná

1. it; class 14 absolute pronoun.

Etymology 3

From Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

Verb

-bóna

1. to see

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Swedish

Etymology 1

Noun

bona

1. definite plural of bo

Etymology 2

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

Verb

bona (present bonar, preterite bonade, supine bonat, imperative bona)

1. to wax or polish a floor

2. (rare or archaic) to equip, to decorate, to dress, to wrap (see also ombona)

Conjugation

See also

• böna
• dona
• ombona

Anagrams

• boan, nabo

Venetian

Adjective

bona f

1. feminine singular of bon

Xhosa

Etymology 1

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?o?ná]

Pronoun

boná

1. they, them; class 2 absolute pronoun.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?o?ná]

Pronoun

boná

1. it; class 14 absolute pronoun.

Etymology 3

From Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

Verb

-bôna

1. to see

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• -bonisa
• -bonisisa

Zulu

Etymology 1

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o?ná/

Pronoun

boná

1. they, them; class 2 absolute pronoun.

Inflection

Etymology 2

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o?ná/

Pronoun

boná

1. it; class 14 absolute pronoun.

Inflection

Etymology 3

From Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

Verb

-bôna

1. (transitive) to see
2. (transitive) to understand, to comprehend
3. (transitive) to recognise
4. (transitive) to seek out, to visit

Inflection

Derived terms

• -bonela (applicative)
• -bonisa (causative)
• -bonisisa (intensive)
• -bonakala (neuter-passive)
• -bonwa (passive)
• -bonana (reciprocal)
• sawubona
• umabonakude

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