Definitions for Bornu

Bornu Bor·nu

Spelling: [bawr-noo]
IPA: /ˈbɔr nu/

Bornu is a 5 letter English word.

You can make 46 anagrams from letters in Bornu (bnoru).

Definitions for Bornu

noun

  1. a former sultanate in Africa, SW of Lake Chad: now largely a province in Nigeria.

Examples for Bornu

The chief languages are the Kanuri or Bornu language and Arabic.

A fortnight later they reached Kukawa, the capital of Bornu, once a great Mohammedan empire.

Bornu and Haiti may have attractions for some; but for us, none whatever.

Its northern emirates were for a long time subject to Bornu, and its customs are nearly assimilated to those of Bornu.

Beriberi (or Berberi) is the name given them by the Hausa (see Bornu).

In ancient times the province of Katagum formed the debateable country between Bornu and the Hausa states.

From that date British Bornu has been under administrative control.

Thence the expedition made its way across the Sahara to Bornu, reached in February 1823.

Thence he went to Sokoto, intending afterwards to go to Bornu.

It is now one of the principal British stations of eastern Bornu.

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