porumbă

Romanian

Alternative forms

• порумбэ (porumbă) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Etymology

Feminine of porumb or possibly from Vulgar Latin palumba or palumbula, from Latin palumbus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /poˈrum.bə/
• Rhymes: -umbə
• Hyphenation: po‧rum‧bă

Noun

porumbă f (plural porumbe)

1. sloe; fruit of the sloe or blackthorn tree
2. (popular) female dove or pigeon

   Synonym: porumbiță

Declension

Declension of porumbă

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(o) porumbă	porumba	(niște) porumbe	porumbele
genitive/dative	(unei) porumbe	porumbei	(unor) porumbe	porumbelor
vocative	porumbă, porumbo		porumbelor