Dahomey

From Fon dã homè (“belly of Dã; snake's belly”).

• IPA^(key): /dəˈhəʊmi/

Dahomey

1. (historical) A former country in Africa, located in present-day Benin.
   • 2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, pages 360–361:

     The way other children hear tell of Red Riding Hood and Goldilocks, I heard of this ‘Black Sparta’, the noble kingdom of Dahomey, fighting to hold off the French to the very end.

• Dahomeyan