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[edit]Etymology
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Nigerian_Agbada.jpg/220px-Nigerian_Agbada.jpg)
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From French boubou, from Wolof mbubb. The bird name is onomatopoeic.
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Noun
[edit]boubou (plural boubous)
- A flowing wide-sleeved robe worn by men in much of West Africa, and to a lesser extent in North Africa.
- Synonym: agbada
- 2007 March 11, Michael Kamber, “A continent away, heartbreak over relatives once seen as lucky”, in The New York Times[1]:
- In Bamako’s thriving market, a group of moneychangers in brightly colored boubous, the traditional robes worn here, said that Moussa Magassa, who owns the house in the Bronx where his family and the Soumares lived and who lost five children in the blaze, stopped by once or twice a year on his trips home to Mali and was well known in the community.
- Any of certain species of birds in the bushshrike genus Laniarius.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]bird of the genus Laniarius
See also
[edit]- brubru (“bird in the bushshrike family of the species Nilaus afer”)
Further reading
[edit]boubou (clothing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Laniarius on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Laniarius on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]boubou m (plural boubous)
- boubou (African robe)
Descendants
[edit]- → English: boubou
Further reading
[edit]- “boubou”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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