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bogolan

bogolan noun: a hand-made Malian cotton fabric, traditionally dyed with fermented mud.

Noun

bogolan (countable and uncountable, plural bogolans)

  1. A hand-made Malian cotton fabric, traditionally dyed with fermented mud.
    Synonyms:
    mudcloth

Synonyms of bogolan

Forms of bogolan

pluralbogolans

Origin of bogolan

Borrowed from Bambara bɔgɔlanfini (“mud cloth”).

Questions about bogolan

What does bogolan mean?
Bogolan means a hand-made Malian cotton fabric, traditionally dyed with fermented mud.
What part of speech is bogolan?
Bogolan is a noun.
What is the plural of bogolan?
The plural of bogolan is bogolans.

Words near bogolan in the dictionary

  1. Bogo-Indian Defence
  2. Bogodo Lama
  3. bogof
  4. BOGOFF
  5. bogofs
  6. bogolan
  7. bogolans
  8. Bogoliubov transformation
  9. Bogoliubov-Parasyuk theorem
  10. Bogoliubov-Valatin transformation
  11. bogolon

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