Bumba

See also: bumba

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈbumba]

Proper noun

Bumba m anim (female equivalent Bumbová)

  1. a male surname

Declension

Declension of Bumba (masculine animate in -a)
singular plural
nominative Bumba Bumbové
genitive Bumby Bumbů
dative Bumbovi Bumbům
accusative Bumbu Bumby
vocative Bumbo Bumbové
locative Bumbovi Bumbech
instrumental Bumbou Bumby

Further reading

  • “Bumba”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

Probably from Kongo m-buúmba (“mystery, secret”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bumba/, [bumba̠], [bumbɑ̟]

Proper noun

Bumba

  1. (Winti) a Winti deity[2]

References

  1. ^ Norval Smith (2015) “A preliminary list of probable Kikongo (KiKoongo) lexical items in the Surinam Creoles”, in P. Muysken, N. Smith, editors, Surviving the Middle Passage: The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN, page 430
  2. ^ Melville J. Herskovits and Frances S. Herskovits (1936) Suriname folk-lore‎[1], New York: Columbia University Press, page 744
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