Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryAn 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.
Borrowed from Swahili boma (“enclosure, fortified outpost”).
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