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Czech
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Bumba m anim (female equivalent Bumbová)
- a male surname
Declension
Declension of Bumba (masculine animate in -a)
Further reading
- “Bumba”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)
Sranan Tongo
Etymology
Probably from Kongo m-buúmba (“mystery, secret”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Bumba
- (Winti) a Winti deity
References
- ^ Norval Smith (2015) “A preliminary list of probable Kikongo (KiKoongo) lexical items in the Surinam Creoles”, in P. Muysken, N. Smith, editors, Surviving the Middle Passage: The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN, page 430
- ^
Melville J. Herskovits and Frances S. Herskovits (1936) Suriname folk-lore, New York: Columbia University Press, page 744