tumba

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See also: Tumba, tumbá, tumbã, and tumbă

Cebuano

Etymology

From Spanish tumbar. Cognate with Tagalog tumba.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: tum‧ba

Verb

tumba

  1. to fall down
  2. to fall over; to topple over
  3. to tumble
  4. to bump off; to kill, especially to murder

Noun

tumba

  1. any of two cyprinid fish endemic to Lake Lanao in the Philippines
    1. Barbodes tumba (tumba)`
    2. Barbodes flavifuscus (katapa-tapa)

Irish

Noun

tumba m (genitive singular tumba, nominative plural tumbaí)

  1. Alternative form of tuama (“tomb; tombstone”)

Declension

Declension of tumba

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative tumba tumbaí
Vocative a thumba a thumbaí
Genitive tumba tumbaí
Dative tumba tumbaí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an tumba na tumbaí
Genitive an tumba na dtumbaí
Dative leis an tumba

don tumba

leis na tumbaí

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
tumba thumba dtumba
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos), probably from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”).

Pronunciation

Noun

tumba f (genitive tumbae); first declension

  1. (Late Latin) tomb

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative tumba tumbae
Genitive tumbae tumbārum
Dative tumbae tumbīs
Accusative tumbam tumbās
Ablative tumbā tumbīs
Vocative tumba tumbae

Synonyms

Descendants

References

  • “tumba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • tumba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Middle English

Noun

tumba (plural tumbas)

  1. Alternative form of tombe (“tomb”)

Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: tum‧ba

Noun

tumba f (plural tumbas)

  1. tomb (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
    Synonym: túmulo

Sango

Noun

tumba

  1. war

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtumba/
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -umba
  • Syllabification: tum‧ba

Etymology 1

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

Noun

tumba f (plural tumbas)

  1. grave, tomb
    Synonym: sepultura
Derived terms
Related terms

Etymology 2

Verb

tumba

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

References

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Further reading

Tagalog

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish tumbar. Compare Cebuano tumba.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tumˈba/,
  • Hyphenation: tum‧ba

Adjective

tumbá (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜋ᜔ᜊ)

  1. fallen down (from an upright position)
    Synonyms: tumbado, buwal, nabuwal, bulid, timbuwang, bulagta, handusay, lupasay, lugpo
  2. bankrupt (of a business)
    Synonyms: bangkarote, bagsak, tumbado
Derived terms
Related terms

Noun

tumbá (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜋ᜔ᜊ)

  1. falling down from an upright position
    Synonyms: buwal, pagbuwal, pagkabuwal
  2. condition of having fallen down (from an upright position)
  3. (boxing) condition of being knocked out
    Synonyms: bagsak, pagbagsak
  4. bankruptcy (of a business)
    Synonyms: bagsak, pagbagsak

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish tumba.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtumba/,
  • Hyphenation: tum‧ba

Noun

tumba (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜋ᜔ᜊ)

  1. tomb
    Synonyms: puntod, nitso, sepulkro, katapalka, mawsoleo

Yoruba

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Arabic تَوْبَة (tawba).

Pronunciation

Verb

túḿbá

  1. (intransitive) to surrender
    Synonym: fi lélẹ̀
    Synonym: juwọ́ sílẹ̀
    Ebi ló mú ọ̀tá túḿbá. ― It was hunger that made the enemy surrender.
  2. (intransitive) to apologize, to show remorse, to repent
    Synonyms: tọrọ àforíjì, bẹ̀, ronúpìwàdà

Derived terms

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