aboma

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English

Boa constrictor
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Etymology

From Sranan Tongo aboma, from Fanti Akan aboma (“large constricting snake”), perhaps via French aboma.

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /əˈboʊ.mə/
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Noun

aboma (plural abomas)

  1. Any of the large South American serpents from the genus Boa or related genera.

Translations

Anagrams

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

Probably from Kongo m-bòma (“python”), from Proto-Bantu *-boma (“python”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

aboma

  1. anaconda
  2. Any of various other large constrictors, aboma.

Hypernyms

References

  1. ^ Norval Smith (2015) “A preliminary list of probable Kikongo (KiKoongo) lexical items in the Surinam Creoles”, in P. Muysken, N. Smith, editors, Surviving the Middle Passage: The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN, page 429
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