English

Proper noun

Kokama

1. Alternative form of Cocama
   • 2006, Jonathan David Hill & ‎Fernando Santos-Granero, Comparative Arawakan Histories, ISBN 0252073843:

     Therefore, the Kokama languages, including Kokama, Kokamilla, Omagua, and probably others, would be representatives of the riverine Arawaks who controlled much of the Amazon main branch.

   • 2012, Lyle Campbell & ‎Verónica Grondona, The Indigenous Languages of South America, ISBN 311025803X:

     According to Cabral (1995), the origin of Kokama must go back to the late pre-Columbian periuod, when a group of Tupinambá speakers migrated in the late 15th century from the Atlantic coast inland to the upper Amazon, and came in contact with speakers of one or more other languages, possibly Arawakan.

   • 2014, Gale Goodwin Gómez & ‎Hein van der Voort, Reduplication in Indigenous Languages of South America, ISBN 9004272410, page 278:

     Generally, stress in isolated words of two and more syllables is on the last syllable in the Tupi and Tupi-Guarani languages discussed here, with the exception of Chiriguano, Siriono, Yuki, Ava/-Canoeiro, and Kokama, where it is on the penultimate syllable.

Noun

Kokama ‎(plural Kokamas or Kocama)

1. Alternative form of Cocama
   • 1949, James Minoru Sakoda, Minidoka, page 354:

     The Kokamas looked disturbed when they arrived in Shoshone.

   • 1952, Curt Nimuendajú, The Tukuna - Volumes 45-46, page 9:

     Simultaneously, the Kokama Indians of the lower Ucayali region began to emigrate to the Brazilian Solim5es, where they established themselves among the Tukuna, though in separate localities.

   • 2006, Sille Stidsen, The Indigenous World 2006, ISBN 8791563186, page 194:

     Espírito Santo (Amazonas state), with an area of 33,849 has. for a population of 121 inhabitants, permanently occupied by the Kokama people.

   • 2006, Good Practices on Indigenous Peoples' Development, ISBN 971935660X, page 160:

     Influencing other ethnic groups and beyond The Ticuna project has already expanded to include teachers from two other ethnic groups, Kokama and Kaixana.

English

Noun

kokama ‎(plural kokamas)

1. (Bechuana) The gemsbok.
   • 1876, The Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London, page 289:

     I have heard that the Matabili have no name for this animal; but the Bechuana term is "Kokama."

   • 1888, John Sterling Kingsley, Mammals, page 326:

     The Oryx capensis of South Africa, or Gemsbok of the Dutch colonists, Kokama of the Bechuanas, is even more striking in its coloring.

   • 1891, The Living World, page 597:

     The Gemsbok {Oryx capensis) is sometimes called the kokama, is nearly four feet in height, and has South Africa as its habitat.

2. (India) The mangosteen.
   • 1903, Rustomjee Naserwanjee Khory & ‎Nanabhai Navrosji Katrak, Materia medica of India and their therapeutics, page 80:

     Kokama or amsul is the pulp of the fruit cleared of the seeds and dried in the sun and slightly salted. It is of a black colour and an oval shape. The epidermis is wrinkled. At the base of kokama the calyx and the remainder of the stalk are often seen.

   • 1883, Sir George Watt, Economic Products of India Exhibited at the Calcutta International Exhibition, 1883-84:

     Kokum, Ratdmbi, the fruit kokama, amasula, brinddo, Bom. ; Brindao, Goa.

3. A variety of corn with purple kernels cultivated by the Hopi.
   • 1999, Virginia D. Nazarea, Ethnoecology: Situated Knowledge/located Lives, ISBN 0816523649, page 140:

     Contrast of first and most recent regenerations of USDA Hopi kokoma and blue maize varieties conserved ex situ.

   • 2011, Gary A. David, The Kivas of Heaven: Ancient Hopi Starlore, ISBN 1935487531:

     In addition, black (or purple) corn, known as kokoma, or Masau'u's corn, symbolically representing the direction of Above, is planted in May for the fall havest.

   • 2012, Gary Paul Nabhan, Where Our Food Comes From, ISBN 1597265179, page 133:

     Among just five families, Whiting found the following grops were still grown on a regular basis: yellow, red, blue, white, violet, pink, and speckled flour and flint corns; purple-backed kokama corn; sweet corn; shite and gray lima beans; white and blue string beans; grease beans; pole beans; white tepary beans; peanuts; watermelons; casaba melons; honeydw melons; muskmelons; banana squash; cushaw squash; Hubbard squash; cucumbers; onions; chilies; tomatoes; turnips; red dye amaranths; cabbages; peaches; pears; apricots; apples; grapes; and cherries.

4. A variety of grass Rottboelia exaltata.
   • 1954, Stephen John Watson, Abstracts on the Conservation of Grass and Other Forage Crops Up to 1939:

     =Kokoma or guinea grass (Rottboelia exaltata) is a heavy cropping plant which makes good silage.

   • 2001, Charles A. Lamp, ‎Stephen J. Forbes & ‎J. W. Cade, Grasses of Temperate Australia: A Field Guide, page 17:

     However, 10 of the 18 places are filled by grass species: 2 Cynodon dactylon (couch grass), 2 Echinochloa crus-galli (barnyard grass), 4 Echinochloa colona (awnless barnyard grass(, 5 Eleusine indica (crowsfoot grass), 6 Sorghum halepense (Johnson grass(, 7 Imperata cylindricat (blady grass), 11 Digitaria sanguinalis (summer grass), 13 Avena fatua (wild oat), 17 Paspalum conjugatum (sourgrass) and 18 Rottboellia cochinchinensis (kokoma grass).