tumba

See also: Tumba, tumbá, tumbã, and tumbă

Cebuano

Etymology

From Spanish tumbar. Cognate with Tagalog tumba.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: tum‧ba

Verb

tumba

1. to fall down
2. to fall over; to topple over
3. to tumble
4. to bump off; to kill, especially to murder

Noun

tumba

1. any of two cyprinid fish endemic to Lake Lanao in the Philippines
   1. Barbodes tumba (tumba)`
   2. Barbodes flavifuscus (katapa-tapa)

Irish

Noun

tumba m (genitive singular tumba, nominative plural tumbaí)

1. Alternative form of tuama (“tomb; tombstone”)

Declension

Declension of tumba

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative tumba tumbaí Vocative a thumba a thumbaí Genitive tumba tumbaí Dative tumba tumbaí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an tumba na tumbaí Genitive an tumba na dtumbaí Dative leis an tumba don tumba leis na tumbaí

Mutation

Irish mutation
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 *tewh₂- (“to swell”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtum.ba/, [ˈt̪ʊmbä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtum.ba/, [ˈt̪umbä]

Noun

tumba f (genitive tumbae); first declension

1. (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
  • → Middle Dutch:
    • Dutch: tombe
    • Limburgish: tómb
• 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)

1. Alternative form of tombe (“tomb”)

Portuguese

Etymology

From Late Latin tumba (possibly borrowed), from Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtũ.bɐ/

• Rhymes: -ũbɐ
• Hyphenation: tum‧ba

Noun

tumba f (plural tumbas)

1. tomb (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)

   Synonym: túmulo

Further reading

• “tumba”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024

Sango

Noun

tumba

1. war

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtumba/ [ˈt̪ũm.ba]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -umba
• Syllabification: tum‧ba

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Late Latin tumba, from Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos).

Noun

tumba f (plural tumbas)

1. grave, tomb

   Synonym: sepultura

Derived terms

• a tumba abierta
• paño de tumba
• ser una tumba

 

Related terms

• tumbar
• tumbona

 

Etymology 2

Verb

tumba

1. inflection of tumbar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “tumba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16

Tagalog

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish tumbar. Compare Cebuano tumba.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /tumˈba/ [t̪ʊmˈba]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: tum‧ba

Adjective

tumbá (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜋ᜔ᜊ)

1. fallen down (from an upright position)

   Synonyms: tumbado, buwal, nabuwal, bulid, timbuwang, bulagta, handusay, lupasay, lugpo

2. bankrupt (of a business)

   Synonyms: bangkarote, bagsak, tumbado

Derived terms

• itumba
• magpatumba
• magtumba
• matumba
• nakatumba
• patumbahin
• tumba lata
• tumba-tumba
• tumbang preso

 

Related terms

• tumbado

Noun

tumbá (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜋ᜔ᜊ)

1. falling down from an upright position

   Synonyms: buwal, pagbuwal, pagkabuwal

2. condition of having fallen down (from an upright position)
3. (boxing) condition of being knocked out

   Synonyms: bagsak, pagbagsak

4. bankruptcy (of a business)

   Synonyms: bagsak, pagbagsak

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish tumba.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈtumba/ [ˈt̪um.bɐ]
• Rhymes: -umba
• Syllabification: tum‧ba

Noun

tumba (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜋ᜔ᜊ)

1. 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

1. (intransitive) to surrender

   Synonym: fi lélẹ̀

   Synonym: juwọ́ sílẹ̀

   Ebi ló mú ọ̀tá túḿbá. ― It was hunger that made the enemy surrender.

2. (intransitive) to apologize, to show remorse, to repent

   Synonyms: tọrọ àforíjì, bẹ̀, ronúpìwàdà

Derived terms

• ìtúúbá (“surrender, apology”)