tomba

Catalan

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tomba

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Catalan tomba, inherited from Late Latin tumba, from Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos).

Noun

tomba f (plural tombes)

1. tomb

Related terms

• tombar

References

• “tomba” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Etymology 2

Verb

tomba

1. inflection of tombar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔ̃.ba/

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• Homophone: tombât

Verb

tomba

1. third-person singular past historic of tomber

Galician

Etymology

Unknown.

Pronunciation

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Noun

tomba f (plural tombas)

1. patch, reparation (on a shoe, boot...)

References

• “tomba” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “tomba” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “tomba” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Irish

Noun

tomba m

1. Obsolete form of tuama.

Mutation

Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin tumba, from Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtom.ba/
• Rhymes: -omba
• Hyphenation: tóm‧ba

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Noun

tomba f (plural tombe)

1. tomb, grave
   • mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VI”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 97–99; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     ciascun rivederà la trista tomba,
     ripiglierà sua carne e sua figura,
     udirà quel ch’in etterno rimbomba".

     each one shall find their dismal tomb again, shall take back their flesh and their appearance, shall hear that which eternally resounds

2. (figurative) a very narrow and gloomy habitation or room (such as a basement or cellar)
3. (figurative, archaic) cave or vault
   • 1349–1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Giornata terza – Novella ottava”, in Decameron; republished as Aldo Francesco Massera, editor, Il Decameron‎, Bari: Laterza, 1927:

     L’abate con un monaco bolognese […] levatosi la notte tacitamente, Ferondo trassero della sepoltura, e lui in una tomba […] portarono

     Silently waking up at night, the abbot, together with a Bolognese monk, took Ferondo from his burial site, and brought him to a vault

   • mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXXIV”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 513–514; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Luogo è là giù da Belzebù remoto
     tanto quanto la tomba si distende

     There's a place below, as far away as the cave extends

   • 1532, Niccolò Machiavelli, Istorie Fiorentine, page 149:

     in una tomba fatta per conservare frumento si nascose

     he hid in a vault used to store wheat

Synonyms

• sepolcro, sepoltura; arca, avello, tumulo (literary)

Derived terms

• intombare
• tombale

Related terms

• ecatombe

Occitan

Pronunciation

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Noun

tomba f (plural tombas) (Languedoc, Limousin)

1. tomb, grave

   Holonyms: cementeri, cementèri

Further reading

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 598.

Portuguese

Verb

tomba

1. inflection of tombar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Swahili

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-tòmba.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

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Verb

-tomba (infinitive kutomba)

1. (vulgar, slang) to fuck, to have sex with

Conjugation

Derived terms

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -tombea
  • Causative: -tombesha
  • Passive: -tombwa
  • Reciprocal: -tombana
  • Stative: -tombeka

• Nominal derivations:
  • mtombo

References

• "Kutomba" on a Swahili-English dictionary