Definition of "goma" [goma]

• A city in eastern Congo at the northern end of Lake Kivu near the border with Rwanda (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Kitahara and Malum will perform a ritual known as goma, meaning holy fire, which involves burning small pieces of holy wood before a Buddhist alter for spiritual purification."
• "VERJEE: Kyra, it is a traditional Kenyan dance called goma (ph), and I won't do it for you, because I am absolutely awful, but they are playing it in the background for the few tourists and the couple of very tired journalists that are standing here a little embarrassed to talking to you, Kyra."
• "This is for the performance of the fire ritual, the goma, that is part of esoteric Buddhism in Japan."