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boko haram

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.05 in modern English

Syllables
boko haram
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

An Islamist jihadist militant group based in Nigeria but active in adjoining Northwest African countries.

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Etymology

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

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Questions

What does boko haram mean?
An Islamist jihadist militant group based in Nigeria but active in adjoining Northwest African countries.
Where does boko haram come from?
It is traced to Arabic.

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