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kiboko
ki-BO-ko
hippopotamus
French: hippopotame
Kiboko azali na kati ya mai.
The hippopotamus is inside the water.
L'hippopotame est dans l'eau.
Kiboko — hippopotamus (from Swahili). Kiboko inhabit the Congo and Ubangi rivers; encounters with them are a real river danger. The word also entered English via colonial Swahili.
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