tumba
See also: Tumba, tumbá, tumbã, and tumbă
Cebuano
Etymology
From Spanish tumbar. Cognate with Tagalog tumba.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: tum‧ba
Verb
tumba
- to fall down
- to fall over; to topple over
- to tumble
- to bump off; to kill, especially to murder
Noun
tumba
- any of two cyprinid fish endemic to Lake Lanao in the Philippines
- Barbodes tumba (tumba)`
- Barbodes flavifuscus (katapa-tapa)
Irish
Noun
tumba m (genitive singular tumba, nominative plural tumbaí)
- Alternative form of tuama (“tomb; tombstone”)
Declension
Declension of tumba
Fourth declension
Bare forms
| Forms with the definite article
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Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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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
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “tumba”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos), probably from Proto-Indo-European *tewH.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtum.ba/, [ˈt̪ʊmbä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈtum.ba/, [ˈt̪umbä]
Noun
tumba f (genitive tumbae); first declension
- (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
- sepulcrum
Descendants
- Eastern Romance
- Aromanian: tumbã
- Italo-Dalmatian
- Italian: tomba
- Old French: tumbe, tombe, toumbe
- Middle French: tumbe
- French: tombe
- Norman: tombe
- Walloon: tombe
- → Middle English: tombe
- English: tomb
- → Irish: tuama
- → Maori: toma
- Middle Scots: tumb, towm
- English: tomb
- → Middle Dutch:
- Dutch: tombe
- Limburgish: tómb
- Middle French: tumbe
- Old Occitan:
- Catalan: tomba
- Occitan: tomba
- → Greek: τούμπα (toúmpa)
- → Portuguese: tumba (perhaps inherited)
- → Spanish: tumba
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)
- Alternative form of tombe (“tomb”)
Portuguese
Etymology
From Late Latin tumba (possibly borrowed), from Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtũ.bɐ/
Noun
tumba f (plural tumbas)
- tomb (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)
- Synonym: túmulo
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin tumba,[1] from Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtumba/ [ˈt̪ũm.ba]
Audio (Colombia) (file) - Rhymes: -umba
- Syllabification: tum‧ba
Noun
tumba f (plural tumbas)
- grave, tomb
Derived terms
- ser una tumba
Related terms
- tumbar
- tumbona
Verb
tumba
- inflection of tumbar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
References
- Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983–1991) Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Further reading
- “tumba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tagalog
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Spanish tumbar. Compare Cebuano tumba.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: tum‧ba
- IPA(key): /tumˈba/, [tumˈba]
Adjective
tumbá
- fallen down (from an upright position)
- Synonyms: tumbado, buwal, nabuwal, bulid, timbuwang, bulagta, handusay, lupasay, lugpo
- bankrupt (of a business)
- Synonyms: bangkarote, bagsak, tumbado
Derived terms
- itumba
- magpatumba
- magtumba
- matumba
- nakatumba
- patumbahin
- tumba lata
- tumbang preso
- tumba-tumba
Related terms
- tumbado
Noun
tumbá
- falling down from an upright position
- Synonyms: buwal, pagbuwal, pagkabuwal
- condition of having fallen down (from an upright position)
- (boxing) condition of being knocked out
- Synonyms: bagsak, pagbagsak
- bankruptcy (of a business)
- Synonyms: bagsak, pagbagsak
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Spanish tumba.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: tum‧ba
- IPA(key): /ˈtumba/, [ˈtum.bɐ]
Noun
tumba
- tomb
- Synonyms: puntod, nitso, sepulkro, katapalka, mawsoleo
Yoruba
Alternative forms
- túńbá
- túúbá
Etymology
From Arabic تَوْبَة (tawba).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tú.ŋ́.bá/
Verb
túḿbá
- (intransitive) to surrender
- Synonym: fi lélẹ̀
- Synonym: juwọ́ sílẹ̀
- Ebi ló mú ọ̀tá túḿbá. ― It was hunger that made the enemy surrender.
- (intransitive) to apologize, to show remorse, to repent
- Synonyms: tọrọ àforíjì, bẹ̀, ronúpìwàdà
Derived terms
- ìtúúbá (“surrender, apology”)