Boko Haram

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英文释义

专有名词
  1. An Islamist jihadist militant group based in Nigeria but active in adjoining Northwest African countries.
    — Security officials say such a move makes it easy for Boko Haram to infiltrate Cameroon and gather vital security information.

词源

From Hausa boko (“fake, often said of Western education”) + haram (“forbidden”), from Arabic حَرَام (ḥarām). Literally, “Western education is forbidden”.
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