limba
English
editEtymology
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Noun
editlimba (plural limbas)
- A large African tree, Terminalia superba, whose hard wood is used for furniture, table tennis paddles and musical instruments.
- 1965, Theodore Geiger, editor, Agrifor and U.S. Plywood in the Congo, Issue 12, page 50:
- This was the wood of the limba tree — a native of the Mayumbe forest — from which is produced a beautifully grained, blond, high-quality veneer for plywood and other uses.
- 1991, Ján Borota, tropical forests: some African and Asian case studies of composition and structure, Elsevier, page 101:
- Limba occurred in blocks a, c and d and varied from 0.1 to 0.6 exploitable trees per hectare on average.
- 1994, Richard C. Schultz, Joe P. Colletti, editors, Opportunities for Agroforestry in the Temperate Zone Worldwide: Proceedings of the Third North American Agroforestry Conference, page 242:
- Because of the decline of harvestable Limba trees in natural forests, a reforestation program was then undertaken by the government using local seed sources [5].
Synonyms
edit- (Terminalia superba): afara
Translations
editTerminalia superba
References
edit- Irvine, F. R. (1961) Woody Plants of Ghana: With Special Reference to Their Uses[1], London: Oxford University Press, page 135
Anagrams
editAromanian
editPronunciation
editNoun
editlimba f
Cebuano
editPronunciation
edit- Hyphenation: lim‧ba
Noun
editlimba
- the color pink
Adjective
editlimba
- having a pink colour
Czech
editPronunciation
editNoun
editlimba f
Declension
editFurther reading
editLingala
editEtymology
editProbably from Proto-Bantu *dímb (“forget”).
Pronunciation
editVerb
edit-limba (infinitive kolimba)
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- “limba” in Dictionnaire lingala-français
Polish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Middle High German līm-boum, līm-bām, līn-boum, līn-bām.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editlimba f
Declension
editDeclension of limba
Further reading
editRomanian
editAlternative forms
edit- лимба (limba) — Moldovan Cyrillic spelling
Pronunciation
editNoun
editlimba f
Sardinian
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Latin lingua. For the change /ɡʷ/ > /b/, compare Romanian limbă.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editlimba f (plural limbas)
- tongue
- M’apo mossigadu sa limba ― I bit my own tongue
- language
- Synonyms: faeddu, faedhónzu, faedhóngiu, faedhada, prallata
- limba sarda ― Sardinian language
- speech (faculty of speaking)
Derived terms
editSpanish
editNoun
editlimba f (plural limbas)
Noun
editlimba m or f by sense (plural limbas)
Tok Pisin
editEtymology 1
editNoun
editlimba
Etymology 2
editNoun
editlimba
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