Word.ws English Dictionary

bokono

bokono noun: an exceptional diviner in the Ifá (Fá) religion and system of divination of the Fon and Yoruba people.

Noun

bokono (plural bokonos)

  1. An exceptional diviner in the Ifá (Fá) religion and system of divination of the Fon and Yoruba people.

Forms of bokono

pluralbokonos
alternative formbokonon

Origin of bokono

From Fon bókɔ́nɔ̀ (“soothsayer”).

Questions about bokono

What does bokono mean?
Bokono means an exceptional diviner in the Ifá (Fá) religion and system of divination of the Fon and Yoruba people.
What part of speech is bokono?
Bokono is a noun.
What is the plural of bokono?
The plural of bokono is bokonos.

Words near bokono in the dictionary

  1. Bokmål
  2. boko
  3. Boko Haram
  4. Bokod
  5. bokola
  6. bokono
  7. bokonon
  8. Bokononism
  9. bokonons
  10. bokonos
  11. bokor

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bokono (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “bokono.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/bokono. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.