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botha

botha is the contraction of both.

Meaning of both

Determiner

both

  1. Each of the two; one and the other; referring to two individuals or items.
    • Both (the/my) children are such dolls.

See all 5 meanings of both

Proper noun capitalized: Botha

Botha (countable and uncountable, plural Bothas)

  1. (countable) A surname from Afrikaans.
  2. (uncountable) A village in Alberta, Canada.

Forms of botha

pluralBothas

Origin of botha

From Afrikaans Botha. Doublet of Both. * (Botha, Alberta): Named after Louis Botha.

Words formed from botha

Questions about botha

What does botha mean?
Botha means a surname from Afrikaans.
What is botha the contraction of?
Botha is the contraction of both.
What part of speech is botha?
Botha is a proper noun.

Words near botha in the dictionary

  1. both-sideses
  2. both-sidesing
  3. both-sidesism
  4. both-sidism
  5. both/and
  6. botha
  7. Botha's Hill
  8. Botham
  9. Bothamley
  10. Bothamleys
  11. Bothas

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: botha (page history and authors); Botha (page history and authors); both (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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