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bubu

bubu is the alternative form of boubou.

Meaning of boubou

Noun (1)

boubou (plural boubous)

  1. A flowing wide-sleeved robe worn by men in much of West Africa, and to a lesser extent in North Africa.
    • Yedjo is dressed in a black boubou and carries a saber in his left hand, its copper handle in the form of a vulture's head.1992, Paul Stoller, The Cinematic Griot, The Ethnography of Jean Rouch, page 109
    Synonyms:
    agbada

Noun (2)

boubou (plural boubous)

  1. Any of certain species of birds in the bushshrike genus Laniarius.

Forms of bubu

pluralbubus

Questions about bubu

What is bubu the alternative form of?
Bubu is the alternative form of boubou.

Words near bubu in the dictionary

  1. bubonically
  2. bubonocele
  3. bubonoceles
  4. bubos
  5. bubs
  6. bubu
  7. bubukle
  8. bubukles
  9. bubula
  10. bubur ayam
  11. bubus

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bubu (page history and authors); boubou (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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