tombo

From Ndonga otombo.

tombo (uncountable)

1. (Namibia) A traditional sweet beer made from the bamboo palm.

From Japanese トンボ (tonbo, “dragonfly”, a nickname for the albacore tuna).

tombo (uncountable)

1. (Hawaii) Albacore, longfin tuna (Thunnus alalunga)

   Synonym: (Hawaii) tombo ahi

• Mobot, mobot

Borrowed from Ndonga otombo.

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tombo (uncountable)

1. (Namibia) tombo (a traditional sweet beer)
   • 2004 April 26, “Lewe agter die tralies”, in Republikein:

     'n KLOPJAG weens die vermoede dat tombo gestook word in die tronk, is die jongste grief op die vermeende Caprivi-afstigters in Grootfontein se klagtelys.

     A raid because of the suspicion that tombo is being brewed in jail, is the latest grief on the list of complaints of the alleged Caprivi separatists in Grootfontein.

   • 2020 August 11, Spotprent, Republikein:

     Agt polisiebeamptes wat in April 'n man forseer het om in tombo te swem terwyl hulle hom beledig het, is steeds geskors.

     Eight police officers who in April forced a man to swim in tombo while they insulted him, are still suspended.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈtom.bu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈtom.bo]

tombo

1. first-person singular present indicative of tombar

Borrowed from English tomb and French tombe.

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

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

1. tomb, grave, sepulchre

   Holonym: tombejo (“cemetery”)

   Meronym: tomboŝtono (“tombstone”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈtombo/ [ˈt̪om.bʊ]
• Rhymes: -ombo
• Hyphenation: tom‧bo

Deverbal from tombar.

tombo m (plural tombos)

1. upset, turnover, overturn

   Synonyms: vorco, envorco, rouceo

2. stroke, blow

Possibly ultimately from Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos, “tomb”), but perhaps better from Proto-Celtic *tumbos (“mound”).^[1] Cognate with Irish tom.

tombo m (plural tombos)

1. cartulary
   • 1493, J. L. Novo Cazón, editor, El priorato santiaguista de Vilar de Donas en la Edad Media (1194-1500), A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 446:

     outorgamos duas cartas de aforamento, anbas en un tenor, huna para bos, o dicto Pero de Bilar, et outra para que fique enno tonbo do dicto moesteyro

     we grant two contractual charters, both having the same content, one for you, said Pedro de Vilar, and another for being kept at the cartulary of said monastery

2. mound

• tumbio (“heap of snow”)

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “tombo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “tonbo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “tombo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “tombo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “tombo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtom.bo/

tombo (plural tombi)

1. tomb, grave
2. tombstone

• tombeyo (“graveyard, cemetery”)

Hinde (1904) records toombo as an equivalent of English brain in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.^[1]

• 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.^[2]

tombo class 14 (plural matombo)

1. brain

• kĩongo

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

tombo

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

Deverbal from tombar.

tombo m (plural tombos)

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

tombo

1. first-person singular present indicative of tombar

• IPA^(key): /ˈtombo/ [ˈt̪õm.bo]
• Rhymes: -ombo
• Syllabification: tom‧bo

tombo m (plural tombos)

1. (South America) cop

   Synonyms: paco, madero, gorra (Argentina)

tombo (plural matombo)

1. stone