"boubou" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: boubous [plural]
Etymology: From French boubou, from Wolof mbubb. The bird name is onomatopoeic. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|boubou}} French boubou, {{der|en|wo|mbubb}} Wolof mbubb Head templates: {{en-noun}} boubou (plural boubous)
  1. A flowing wide-sleeved robe worn by men in much of West Africa, and to a lesser extent in North Africa. Categories (topical): Clothing Categories (lifeform): Malaconotoid birds Synonyms: agbada Translations (flowing wide-sleeved robe): boubou (French), bubú (Lingala)
    Sense id: en-boubou-en-noun-1~kZu4m9 Disambiguation of Clothing: 91 9 Disambiguation of Malaconotoid birds: 82 18 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with French translations, Terms with Lingala translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 79 21 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 90 10 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 83 17 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 81 19 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 87 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Lingala translations: 89 11 Disambiguation of 'flowing wide-sleeved robe': 98 2
  2. Any of certain species of birds in the bushshrike genus Laniarius.
    Sense id: en-boubou-en-noun-W9vueNxU
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: Albertine sooty boubou (taxonomic: Laniarius holomelas), mountain boubou (taxonomic: Laniarius poensis), mountain sooty boubou (taxonomic: Laniarius poensis), western boubou (taxonomic: Laniarius poensis) Related terms: brubru (english: bird in the bushshrike family of the species Nilaus afer)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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