Goma

See also: goma and GOMA

English

Etymology

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Proper noun

Goma (plural Gomas)

  1. The capital city of the North Kivu province in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
    • 2025 May 22, “Trump’s evidence of South Africa ‘white genocide’ contains images from Democratic Republic of Congo”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
      The picture accompanying the article was in fact a screengrab of a video published by Reuters on 3 February and subsequently verified by the news agency’s fact check team, showing humanitarian workers lifting body bags in the Congolese city of Goma. The image was pulled from Reuters footage shot after deadly battles with Rwanda-backed M23 rebels.
  2. A surname.

Noun

Goma pl (plural only)

  1. A tribe in the Kigoma Region of western Tanzania, a contingent of the Bantu.

Anagrams

Atayal

Proper noun

Goma

  1. a male given name

References

  • Center for aboriginal studies (2014) “Goma”, in 原住民族人名譜 [Dictionary of Aboriginal Names in Taiwan]‎[2] (in Chinese), Taipei: Council of Indigenous Peoples
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