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Boko Haram en · PROPN

Etymology

From Hausa boko (“fake, often said of Western education”) + haram (“forbidden”), from Arabic حَرَام (ḥarām). Literally, “Western education is forbidden”.

Meanings

1. An Islamist jihadist militant group based in Nigeria but active in adjoining Northwest African countries.
   • Security officials say such a move makes it easy for Boko Haram to infiltrate Cameroon and gather vital security information. 2015 March 3, Ngala Killian Chimtom, “Cameroon in for long fight as its youth join Boko Haram”, in CNN:

Relateds

ISWAP

Translations (2)

pl Boko Haram (Translations) · cmn 博科聖地 /博科圣地 (Translations)