ouma

/ ˈəʊmɑː /

noun

1. grandmother, esp in titular use with surname

2. slang,  any elderly woman

Word History and Origins

Origin of ouma¹

Afrikaans

Example Sentences

Another mourner, David Ouma, said: "I learned from Raila is to be resilient, because Raila was always a very resilient leader through every election… he still rose to try again to try again."

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Better known as "ouma", or grandmother, Esau is determined to keep N|uu alive.

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“By doing that, then we will have improved access to these vaccines,” Ouma said.

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“This is a classical example of constrained access for Africa for a product, in this case, vaccines,” said Dr. Ahmed Ogwell Ouma, acting director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, which is based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

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Ouma believes that if African countries had received vaccine support, the world would have been spared the outbreak.

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