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| ====Etymology====
| | {{suna|bawan Allah|bayin Allah}} |
| Often stated to be borrowed from [[Category:Hausa_terms_derived_from_English]][[:Category:Hausa_terms_derived_from_English| English]] book, but Paul Newman disputes this.
| | [[bawa]]n [[Allah]] <abbr title="masculine gender">''m''</abbr>[[Category:Masculine gender Hausa nouns]] |
| | | # [[slave]]/[[servant]] of God |
| ===Noun===
| | # innocent way to describe someone (baiwar Allah = <abbr title="feminine gender">''f''</abbr> ) |
| bōkṑ <abbr title="masculine gender">''m''</abbr>[[Category:Masculine gender Hausa nouns]] (possessed form bōkòn)
| | [[Category:Hausa lemmas]] |
| # [[fraud]], [[deceit]], [[trick]] | |
| # [[a]] [[mock]] [[or]] [[imitation]] [[version]] [[of]] [[something]] [[real]]
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| # [[Western]] [[education]] | |
| # [[Boko]] [[alphabet]] ([[Latin]] [[script]] [[used]] [[to]] [[write]] [[Hausa]])
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| [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/boko#Hausa] [[Category:English Wiktionary Import]][[Category:Hausa lemmas]]
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