See boma on Wiktionary
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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.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1993, Cordelia Dykes Owens, The Eye of the Elephant, Houghton Mifflin Books, →ISBN, page 91:", "text": "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.", "type": "quote" }, { "text": "2003, Rosie Woodroffe, Simon Thirgood, Alan and Rabinowitz, People and Wildlife, Conflict Or Co-existence?, Cambridge University Press, page 298,\nRecent replacement of rolled mesh with bomas made of portable, flexible reinforced mesh panels have nearly eliminated predation." } ], "glosses": [ "An enclosure usually made of thorn bushes, and latterly of steel fencing, for protection from marauders." ], "id": "en-boma-en-noun-fgc0JG0o", "links": [ [ "enclosure", "enclosure" ], [ "marauders", "marauders" ] ], "tags": [ "Africa", "East", "countable", "uncountable" ] }, { "categories": [ { "_dis": "28 24 6 14 6 10 12", "kind": "other", "name": "East African English", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "42 46 1 6 1 3 2", "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "1 8 2 24 26 1 3 1 2 3 7 7 3 3 9", "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 10 entries", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "1 8 1 25 27 1 2 1 1 2 9 9 2 2 10", "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "16 32 1 37 1 12 2", "kind": "topical", "langcode": "en", "name": "Buildings", "orig": "en:Buildings", "parents": [ "Buildings and structures", "Architecture", "Applied sciences", "Art", "Sciences", "Culture", "All topics", "Society", "Fundamental" ], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "18 35 1 31 1 12 2", "kind": "topical", "langcode": "en", "name": "Walls and fences", "orig": "en:Walls and fences", "parents": [ "Buildings and structures", "Architecture", "Applied sciences", "Art", "Sciences", "Culture", "All topics", "Society", "Fundamental" ], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "2003, Harold Brookfield, Helen Parsons, Muriel Brookfield, Agrodiversity, United Nations University Press, page 108:", "text": "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.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A stockade made of bushes and thorns." ], "id": "en-boma-en-noun-1L~Fzevr", "links": [ [ "stockade", "stockade" ] ], "tags": [ "Africa", "East", "countable", "uncountable" ] }, { "examples": [ { "text": "1922, Mary Hastings Bradley, On the Gorilla trail, quoted in Mary Zeiss Strange (editor), Heart Shots: Women write about hunting, Stackpole Books, page 182,\nYou try to arrange the scene so the moonlight will be on the bait with a clear background against which the lion will show up. 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], "etymology_text": "From English bomb.", "forms": [ { "form": "boma", "tags": [ "genitive", "singular" ] }, { "form": "bomaichean", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "gd", "10": "boma", "11": "", "12": "", "13": "", "14": "", "15": "", "16": "", "17": "plural", "18": "bomaichean", "19": "", "2": "noun", "20": "", "21": "", "22": "", "23": "", "24": "{{{pl4}}}", "25": "", "26": "", "3": "", "4": "", "5": "", "6": "", "7": "", "8": "", "9": "genitive singular", "cat2": "", "f10accel-form": "genpl", "f1accel-form": "dat|s", "f2accel-form": "dat|s", "f3accel-form": "dat|s", "f4accel-form": "gen|s", "f5accel-form": "gen|s", "f6accel-form": "gen|s", "f7accel-form": "p", "f8accel-form": "p", "f9accel-form": "p", "g": "m", "g2": "", "g3": "", "head": "" }, "expansion": "boma m (genitive singular boma, plural bomaichean)", "name": "head" }, { "args": { "g": "m", "gen": "boma", "pl": "bomaichean" }, "expansion": "boma m (genitive singular boma, plural bomaichean)", "name": "gd-noun" } ], "lang": "Scottish Gaelic", "lang_code": "gd", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "Pages with 10 entries", "Pages with entries", "Scottish Gaelic entries with incorrect language header", "Scottish Gaelic lemmas", "Scottish Gaelic masculine nouns", "Scottish Gaelic nouns", "Scottish Gaelic terms borrowed from English", "Scottish Gaelic terms derived from English", "gd-noun 2" ], "glosses": [ "bomb (explosive)" ], "links": [ [ "bomb", "bomb" ] ], "tags": [ "masculine" ] } ], "word": "boma" } { "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "svm", "2": "it", "3": "bomba" }, "expansion": "Italian bomba", "name": "bor" } ], "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Italian bomba.", "forms": [ { "form": "no-table-tags", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "table-tags" ] }, { "form": "svm-table entry", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "inflection-template" ] }, { "form": "boma", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "nominative", "singular" ] }, { "form": "bome", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "nominative", "plural" ] }, { "form": "bome", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "genitive", "singular" ] }, { "form": "bomi", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "genitive", "plural" ] }, { "form": "bomu", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "dative", "singular" ] }, { "form": "bomi", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "dative", "plural" ] }, { "form": "bomu", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "accusative", "singular" ] }, { "form": "bome", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "accusative", "plural" ] }, { "form": "bomu", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "locative", "singular" ] }, { "form": "bome", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "locative", "plural" ] }, { "form": "bomom", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "instrumental", "singular" ] }, { "form": "bomi", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "instrumental", "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "svm", "2": "noun", "g": "f" }, "expansion": "boma f", "name": "head" } ], "lang": "Slavomolisano", "lang_code": "svm", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "Pages with 10 entries", "Pages with entries", "Quotation templates to be cleaned", "Slavomolisano entries with incorrect language header", "Slavomolisano feminine nouns", "Slavomolisano lemmas", "Slavomolisano nouns", "Slavomolisano terms borrowed from Italian", "Slavomolisano terms derived from Italian", "Slavomolisano terms with quotations" ], "examples": [ { "english": "One evening, exactly on that day, when the bomb fell, he loaded up a few things in the house, the clothes he had in the house.", "ref": "2010, Luigi Peca, La guerre à Acquaviva:", "text": "Nu večaru, oni dan proprja ka je pala boma, oni je naprtija na mala robe doma, halje ka jimaša po hižu.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "bomb" ], "links": [ [ "bomb", "bomb" ] ], "tags": [ "feminine" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/bômḁ/" } ], "word": "boma" } { "categories": [ "Pages with 10 entries", "Pages with entries", "Swahili class V nouns", "Swahili entries with incorrect language header", "Swahili lemmas", "Swahili nouns", "Swahili terms with unknown etymologies" ], "descendants": [ { "depth": 1, "templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "boma", "bor": "1" }, "expansion": "→ English: boma", "name": "desc" } ], "text": "→ English: boma" } ], "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "sw" }, "expansion": "Uncertain", "name": "unc" } ], "etymology_text": "Uncertain, though almost certainly not from an acronym of \"British Overseas Military Attachment\", which is a folk etymology.", "forms": [ { "form": "boma class V", "tags": [ "canonical" ] }, { "form": "maboma class VI", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "ma" }, "expansion": "boma class V (plural maboma class VI)", "name": "sw-noun" } ], "lang": "Swahili", "lang_code": "sw", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "glosses": [ "enclosure for cattle, kraal" ], "links": [ [ "enclosure", "enclosure" ], [ "cattle", "cattle" ], [ "kraal", "kraal" ] ] }, { "glosses": [ "fortified encampment or settlement" ], "links": [ [ "fortified", "fortified" ], [ "encampment", "encampment" ], [ "settlement", "settlement" ] ] }, { "glosses": [ "fortified military or police outpost, fort or fortress" ], "links": [ [ "fortified", "fortified" ], [ "military", "military" ], [ "police", "police" ], [ "outpost", "outpost" ], [ "fort", "fort" ], [ "fortress", "fortress" ] ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "ngome" }, { "word": "sera" }, { "word": "buruji" } ] } ], "sounds": [ { "audio": "Sw-ke-boma.flac", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a0/Sw-ke-boma.flac/Sw-ke-boma.flac.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a0/Sw-ke-boma.flac/Sw-ke-boma.flac.ogg" } ], "wikipedia": [ "sw:boma" ], "word": "boma" } { "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "zia", "2": "noun" }, "expansion": "boma", "name": "head" } ], "lang": "Zia", "lang_code": "zia", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "Pages with 10 entries", "Pages with entries", "Zia entries with incorrect language header", "Zia lemmas", "Zia nouns" ], "glosses": [ "knee" ], "links": [ [ "knee", "knee" ] ] } ], "word": "boma" }
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