Boke

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Boke may refer to:

People

• Ariq Böke, grandson of Genghis Khan and claimant to the Mongol Empire
• Abba Boke, first king of the Kingdom of Gomma in the Gibe region of Ethiopia
• Uncle Boke, the uncle of author Henry Louis Gates, Jr. described in Colored People

Places

• Boke (woreda), a district in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia
• Boke, a district in Delbrück, Germany
• Boké, a city in Lower Guinea

Fictional characters

• Boke, several characters in the works of Vladimir Nabokov
• Mr. Boke, a detective in Flight of Faviel by Robert Ernest Vernède
• Boke, a role of Howard Keel in The Small Voice
• Boke, a pet dog in Judo Boy
• Miss Ethel Boke, a character in the novel Seventeen by Booth Tarkington
• Boke Kellum, Western TV star in Dan Jenkins' Semi-Tough
• Boke-gaeru ("stupid frog"), Natsumi Hinata's epithet for Sergeant Keroro in Sgt. Frog

Others

• Böke, a form of Mongolian wrestling
• Boke, the "simple-minded" character in a Manzai team, a form of Owarai kombi (Japanese comedy act)
• Boke no mi or Japanese quince, a flowering shrub
• Bokeh or Boke, a photographic term, also of Japanese origin, used to describe the out-of-focus quality of a lens
• BOKE or Bhoke, a railway station in India
• Boke Press, the personal press of Joe Brainard and Kenward Elmslie.

See also

• Democratic Centre of Boka (Democratski Centar Boke), a political party in Montenegro
• Oboke and Koboke, two valleys in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan
• "Fuyōi na Boke to Yasashisa ga Fukō o Yobu", an episode of Hayate the Combat Butler
• "Bolden Boke Boy", a song by Will Oldham
• Boak, a surname