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Bombasa

Bombasa is the archaic form of Mombasa.

Meaning of Mombasa

Proper noun

Mombasa

  1. A large coastal city in Kenya, the second-largest city in Kenya.
  2. A county of Kenya.

Questions about Bombasa

What is Bombasa the archaic form of?
Bombasa is the archaic form of Mombasa.

Words near Bombasa in the dictionary

  1. bombardon
  2. bombardons
  3. bombardos
  4. bombards
  5. bombas
  6. Bombasa
  7. bombase
  8. bombased
  9. bombases
  10. bombasin
  11. bombasine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Bombasa (page history and authors); Mombasa (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.

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