tombo

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Catalan

Verb

tombo

1. first-person singular present indicative form of tombar

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

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

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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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): /tɔ̀^mbɔ́/

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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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

Noun

tombo m (plural tombos)

1. (slang) cop