boma
The English word “boma” has 7 meanings listed here.
noun
- An enclosure usually made of thorn bushes, and latterly of steel fencing, for protection from marauders.
- A stockade made of bushes and thorns.
- A hide.
- A hut.
- A military or police post or magistracy.
- A type of fertilizer rich in animal dung.
- A method of composting in which animals are bedded on the material before it is used, allowing it to gather urine and dung.
Etymology
Borrowed from Swahili boma (“enclosure, fortified outpost”).
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