boma
An enclosure usually made of thorn bushes, and latterly of steel fencing, for…An enclosure usually made of thorn bushes, and latterly of steel fencing, for protection from marauders.
Meaning
7 senses(Africa, East, countable, uncountable)An enclosure usually made of thorn bushes, and latterly of steel fencing, for protection from marauders.
(Africa, East, countable, uncountable)A stockade made of bushes and thorns.
(Africa, East, countable, uncountable)A hide.
(Africa, East, countable, uncountable)A hut.
(Africa, East, countable, uncountable)A military or police post or magistracy.
(Africa, East, countable, uncountable)A type of fertilizer rich in animal dung.
(Africa, East, attributive, uncountable)A method of composting in which animals are bedded on the material before it is used, allowing it to gather urine and dung.
Origin
Borrowed from Swahili boma (“enclosure, fortified outpost”).Borrowed from Swahili boma (“enclosure, fortified outpost”).
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Forms
plural: bomasWord family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable