Boma

Quick meaning: Boma is a noun meaning An enclosure usually made of thorn bushes, and latterly of steel fencing, for protection from marauders.

Meaning

An enclosure usually made of thorn bushes, and latterly of steel fencing, for protection from marauders.

More Meanings

1. A stockade made of bushes and thorns.
2. A military or police post or magistracy.
3. A type of fertilizer rich in animal dung.
4. (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.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

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