Bujumburan

English

Etymology

Bujumbura +‎ -an

Adjective

Bujumburan (not comparable)

1. Of, from, or pertaining to, Bujumbura.
   • 1981, Jamey Cohen, The Night Chasers, New York: Signet, published 1983, →ISBN, page 50:

     You don't understand. She's been reprimanded once already by the Bujumburan police for frightening people, but apparently it did no good.

   • 2019, Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House‎^[1], Grove Press, →ISBN:

     […] I found further escapes from my Bujumburan escape, to UNHCR refugee camps on the Congolese border and in Tanzania, where families hung clotheslines between their white tents with blue tarps for roofs, […]

Noun

Bujumburan (plural Bujumburans)

1. A person from Bujumbura.
   • 2006 July, Xavier Zeebroek, Humanitarian Agenda 2015: Burundi and Liberia Country Studies, Medford: Feinstein International Center, pages 11–12:

     Many poor and middle class Bujumburans had to move to the outskirts of the capital, and even some INGOs were forced to seek offices at a distance from the center of the city where ONUB was located.

   • 2009, Timothy L. Gall, Jeneen Hobby, editors, Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life: Africa, 2nd edition, volume 1, Farmington Hills: Gale, →ISBN, page 94:

     Bujumburans really enjoy nightlife and are fond of a variety of popular music. They dance to all kinds of music—Congolese, Malinke, Zuluka, American, rap, reggae, funk, and other styles.