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Bornou

Bornou is the archaic form of Bornu.

Meaning of Bornu

Proper noun

Bornu

  1. (historical) An independent kingdom (1380-1893), descended from the Kanem–Bornu Empire (700-1380), that covered much of modern Chad and parts of Libya, Niger, Nigeria, and Cameroon

Questions about Bornou

What is Bornou the archaic form of?
Bornou is the archaic form of Bornu.

Words near Bornou in the dictionary

  1. bornness
  2. Borno
  3. bornological
  4. bornologies
  5. bornology
  6. Bornou
  7. Bornouese
  8. bornous
  9. bornouses
  10. borns
  11. Bornstein

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Bornou (page history and authors); Bornu (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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