Boko Haram

English

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Boko Haram

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

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