tombo

Catalan

Verb

tombo

1. first-person singular present indicative form of tombar

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Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from English tomb and French tombe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtombo/
• Hyphenation: tom‧bo
• Rhymes: -ombo

Noun

tombo (accusative singular tombon, plural tomboj, accusative plural tombojn)

1. tomb, grave, sepulchre

Meronyms

• tomboŝtono (“tombstone”)

Holonyms

• tombejo (“cemetery”)

Derived terms

• eltombigi (“disinter, exhume”)
• entombigi (“inter”)
• sentomba (“uninterred”)
• tomba (“of or related to a grave”)
• tombisto (“gravedigger”)
• tombokuŝi (“rest in one's grave”)
• tomboskribo (“epitaph”)

 

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Galician

Etymology

From tombar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtombo̝/

Noun

tombo m (plural tombos)

1. upset, turnover, overturn

   Synonyms: vorco, envorco, rouceo

2. cartulary
3. stroke, blow

References

• “tombo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.

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Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto tombo, from English tomb, French tombe, Italian tomba, Spanish tumba, from Latin tumba, from Ancient Greek τύμβα (túmba).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtom.bo/

Noun

tombo (plural tombi)

1. tomb, grave
2. tombstone

Derived terms

• tombeyo (“graveyard, cemetery”)

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Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records toombo as an equivalent of English brain in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔ̀ᵐbɔ́/

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩng'ang'i, ngũkũ, kĩeha, and so on.

• (Kiambu)

• (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including hiti, icembe, igoko (pl. magoko), ihĩtia (pl. mahĩtia), itumbĩ (pl. matumbĩ), kĩeha, kĩng'ang'i, mũhikania, mũhũmũ, mũkanda, mbica, nduka, ngingo, ngũkũ, rũthanju, and so on.

Noun

tombo class 14 (plural matombo)

1. brain

See also

• kĩongo

References

• “tombo” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 458. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

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Lindu

Noun

tombo

1. allotment; quota
2. prize
3. wage; pay

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Portuguese

Etymology

Back-formation from tombar.

Noun

tombo m (plural tombos)

1. tumble; fall
2. an inventory of real estate

Verb

tombo

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of tombar

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtombo/, [ˈt̪õmbo]

Noun

tombo m (plural tombos)

1. (slang) cop