bomba

Borrowed from Spanish bomba.

bomba (countable and uncountable, plural bombas)

1. (music) A form of traditional drumming, and an associated form of dance, from Puerto Rico.
   • 2009 January 23, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times‎^[2]:

     This eclectic group is dedicated to preserving the Puerto Rican traditions of bomba and plena, two drum-focused (and African-derived) forms of traditional dance music.

• bomba (Puerto Rico) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• A-bomb

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈbom.bə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈbom.ba]

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Back-formation from bombarda (“bombard”).

bomba f (plural bombes)

1. bomb
2. pump

• “bomba”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

bomba

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

From Spanish bomba.

bomba

1. a bomb; an explosive
2. the pump of a well

bomba

1. to bomb; to attack using one or more bombs; to bombard
2. to pump out water
3. to pump in air

Undetermined.

bomba

1. (dated) a woman with big buttocks, or thighs
2. pornography

bomba

1. pornographic

Borrowed from Spanish bomba.

bomba

1. bomb
2. pump

bomba

1. to bomb
2. to pump

• IPA^(key): [ˈbomba]
• Rhymes: -omba
• Hyphenation: bom‧ba

bomba f

1. bomb (explosive)
2. (sports) howitzer (hard shot)
   • 2013, Petr Bílek, Obsluhoval jsem zlatou generaci, Praha: XYZ, →ISBN, page 97:

     Tak, pánové, v moderním hokeji rozhodují vstřelené branky. Kdo jich dá víc, vyhrává. Tak proto musíme dát o jednu bombu k tyči víc než soupeř. Hlavně bomby k tyči a jdeme ma to.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. (slang) smash hit
4. (colloquial) gas cylinder

• “bomba”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “bomba”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

• IPA^(key): /bɔ̃.ba/
• Homophones: bombas, bombât

bomba

1. third-person singular past historic of bomber

A wanderword. Primarily via German Bombe and Italian bomba.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈbombɒ]
• Hyphenation: bom‧ba
• Homophone: Bonnba
• Rhymes: -bɒ

bomba (plural bombák)

1. bomb (an explosive device used or intended as a weapon)

   Synonym: pokolgép

• bomba in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• bomba in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

From Malay bomba, from Portuguese bomba.

bomba (dialectal, obsolete)

1. alternative form of pompa

Borrowed from Russian бомба (bomba).

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈbombɑ/, [ˈbo̞mb]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈbombɑ/, [ˈpo̞mb̥ɑ]
• Rhymes: -omb, -ombɑ
• Hyphenation: bom‧ba

bomba

1. bomb

Declension of bomba (type 3/koira, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	bomba	bombat
genitive	bomban	bombiin
partitive	bombaa	bombia
illative	bombaa	bombii
inessive	bombaas	bombiis
elative	bombast	bombist
allative	bomballe	bombille
adessive	bombaal	bombiil
ablative	bombalt	bombilt
translative	bombaks	bombiks
essive	bombanna, bombaan	bombinna, bombiin
exessive1)	bombant	bombint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 423

bomba m (genitive singular bomba, nominative plural bombaí)

1. alternative form of buama (“bomb”)

• bombáil (“bomb”, transitive verb)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bomba”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “bomba”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm

From Latin bombus (“a boom”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbom.ba/
• Rhymes: -omba
• Hyphenation: bóm‧ba

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bomba f (plural bombe)

1. bomb

• → French: bombe
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: bombe
• → Turkish: bomba
  • → Laz: ბომბა (bomba), ბუმბა (bumba) — Vitse

• bambo

bomba

1. to hide

bomba f

1. bomb (device filled with explosives)

   aviacinė bomba ― aerial bomb

   cheminė bomba ― chemical bomb

   laiko bomba ― time bomb

   vandenilio bomba ― hydrogen bomb

Borrowed from Portuguese bomba.

• (Johor) IPA^(key): /ˈbombə/ [ˈbom.bə]

• (ms-SG, Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /ˈbomba/ [ˈbom.ba]

bomba (Jawi spelling بومبا, plural bomba-bomba)

1. firefighter, fire brigade
2. pump

   Synonym: pam

   Synonym: pompa (Indonesian)

• → Central Dusun: bumba
• → Tausug: bumba

• “bomba” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Borrowed from Italian bomba.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔm.ba/

bomba f (plural bombi)

1. bomb; petard
2. (figuratively) any big-sized round object
3. (figuratively) unexpected news

Borrowed from Norwegian bombe.

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈpomːpa/

bomba

1. bomb

Even a-stem, mb-mbb gradation
Nominative	bomba
Genitive	bombba
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	bomba	bombbat
Accusative	bombba	bombbaid
Genitive	bombba	bombbaid
Illative	bombii	bombbaide
Locative	bombbas	bombbain
Comitative	bombbain	bombbaiguin
Essive	bomban
Possessive forms Singular Dual Plural 1st person bomban bombame bombamet 2nd person bombat bombade bombadet 3rd person bombas bombaska bombaset

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[3], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

bomba

1. (figuratively, slang, of a location) As if a bombshell had gone off; extremely untidy.

• bomba horehus

• bomben

bomba m sg or f sg

1. definite singular of bombe

• bombet

bomba

1. simple past of bombe
2. past participle of bombe

bomba f sg

1. definite singular of bombe

bomba

1. past of bombe

Borrowed from French bombe, from Italian bomba, from Latin bombus (“a boom”), from Ancient Greek βόμβος (bómbos). Related to bęben.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔm.ba/

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• Rhymes: -ɔmba
• Syllabification: bom‧ba

bomba f

1. bomb
2. clipping of bomba kryptologiczna (“cryptologic bomba”) (an electromechanical machine used to break the German Enigma cipher)
3. (sports) a very hard hit of a ball
4. (school slang) a bad grade
5. (slang) a period of sobriety after consumption of substances

bomba

1. (colloquial) great, cool

• bomba in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• bomba in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Rhymes: -õbɐ
• Hyphenation: bom‧ba

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Borrowed from Italian bomba, from Latin bombus (“a booming sound”), from Ancient Greek βόμβος (bómbos, “booming, humming, buzzing”). Sense 3 is a semantic loan from English, which explains the apparent discrepancy with sense 4. Doublet of bombo.

• bõba (obsolete)

bomba f (plural bombas)

1. bomb (explosive device)

   Synonym: explosivo

2. (colloquial) bombshell (an unforeseen event with important consequences)
4. (Brazil, slang) the bomb (a success; something excellent)
   • 2001 June, Renata Leão, quoting Juliana Veiga, “Hi-Tek, Hi — Teknology (Rawkus Records)”, Discoteque, in Tpm, volume 1, number 3, São Paulo: Editora Trip, page 109, column 1:

     O primeiro solo do DJ Hi-Tek é uma bomba. Os rappers Mos Def e Talib Kweli apavoram na sonzeira. Com um ritmo hip hop e alguns raps mais pesados, o CD é uma boa opção para ouvir a caminho de uma balada. A faixa dois, "The Sun God", é um tesão porque conta com a participação de algumas garotas.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

6. (Brazil, slang, derogatory) trash (something worthless or of poor quality)

   Synonym: porcaria

   • 1971 July 16, “Papa-fusca machão da 6 meses ou 12 mil km. de garantia em carros usados”, in Placar, number 70, São Paulo: Abril, page 26, column 1:

     Ninguém engana você com uma "jóia" que no fundo é uma "bomba".

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2008 July, Nina Lemos Leão, quoting Fernanda Scagliusi, “A vida é diet (mas não deveria ser)”, Badulaque, in Tpm, volume 7, number 78, São Paulo: Editora Trip, Cuidado: perigo diet, page 57, column 2:

     "Existe um consumo diário máximo recomendado para qualquer adoçante", diz Fernanda, que acha que a histeria dietética causa outro dano: a perda do sabor. Ah, e segundo ela, o tal açúcar light é "uma bomba". Por isso, meninas, é preciso estar atenta e ser forte. Mesmo em uma simples visita ao supermercado.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

7. (Brazil, bodybuilding, slang) steroid (any anabolic hormone used to promote muscle growth or athletic performance)

   Synonym: anabolizante

   • 2007, Mag, “Quer Tomar Bomba?” (3:24 from the start), in Super-Heróis Urbanos:

     Quer tomar bomba? Pode aplicar / Mas eu não garanto se vai inchar

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

8. (Brazil, slang, soccer) strong shot
9. (Brazil, colloquial) ellipsis of bomba de chocolate (“éclair”)

   Synonym: éclair

• → Bengali: বোমা (bōma)

Uncertain. Sources are divided in considering it either a derivation from etymology 1^[1][2][3]—although neither Italian bomba or Latin bombus carry this sense—or a borrowing from French pompe,^[4][5] which was then reshaped by analogy.

bomba f (plural bombas)

1. pump (device for moving or compressing a liquid or gas)
   • 1572 March 12, Luis de Camoẽs, chapter VI, in Os Lvsiadas, Lisbon: Antonio Gõçaluez, page 108v:

     O ceo fere com gritos niſto a gente, / Cum ſubito temor, & deſacordo, / Que no romper da vela a Nao pendente / Toma gram ſuma dagoa pello bordo, / Alija, diſſe o meſtre, rijamente, / Alija tudo ao mar, não falte acordo, / Vão outros dar a bomba não ceſſando, / Aa bomba que nos imos alagando.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. pump (device for dispensing liquid or gas to be sold)
3. (South Brazil) bombilla (a straw, often made of metal, ending in a filter and used for drinking maté/chimarrão)

• → Gujarati: બંબો (bambo)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: बंबा (bambā)

  Urdu: بمبہ (bamba)

  • → Kalasha: بامبا (bambá)

• → Malay: bomba
• → Marathi: बंब (bamba)
• → Swahili: bomba

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

bomba

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

• “bomba”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• Xavier, Anthony Soares, transl. (1936) [1913], Portuguese Vocables in Asiatic Languages, Baroda: Oriental Institute, translation of Influencia do Vocabulario Português em Línguas Asiáticas by Sebastião Rodolfo Dalgado (in Portuguese), →ISBN, page 54, column 2
• “bomba¹”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “bomba²”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025

Borrowed from French bomber.

• IPA^(key): /bomˈba/

a bomba (third-person singular present bombează, past participle bombat) 1st conjugation

1. (intransitive or reflexive) to bulge
2. (transitive) to cause to bulge

• IPA^(key): /bôːmba/
• Hyphenation: bom‧ba

bȏmba f (Cyrillic spelling бо̑мба)

1. bomb

Borrowed from German Bombe.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɔmba]

bomba f (relational adjective bombový, diminutive bombička)

1. bomb (explosive)

• bombardovať (“to bomb, bombard”)

• “bomba”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

• IPA^(key): /bóːmba/

bọ̑mba f

1. bomb

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing.	bómba
gen. sing.	bómbe
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	bómba	bómbi	bómbe
genitive (rodȋlnik)	bómbe	bómb	bómb
dative (dajȃlnik)	bómbi	bómbama	bómbam
accusative (tožȋlnik)	bómbo	bómbi	bómbe
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	bómbi	bómbah	bómbah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	bómbo	bómbama	bómbami

Borrowed from Latin bombus (“noise”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbomba/ [ˈbõm.ba]

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• Rhymes: -omba
• Syllabification: bom‧ba

bomba f (plural bombas)

1. bomb (an explosive device used or intended as a weapon)
2. pump (a device for moving or compressing a liquid or gas)
3. adjustable metal slide used to tune brass instruments
4. lamp globe
5. something unusual producing excitement
6. something extraordinary
7. smash hit
8. high-hat
9. (Andalusia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Peru, colloquial) drunkenness

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:borrachera

10. (Latin America) firecracker

    Synonym: petardo

11. (Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Panama, Venezuela, Uruguay) petrol station

    Synonyms: gasolinera, estación de servicio, (Chile) bencinera, (Mexico) gasolinería, (Peru) grifo

bomba

1. feminine singular of bombo

• “bomba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Borrowed from Portuguese bomba.

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bomba class V (plural mabomba class VI)

1. pipe, pipeline
2. pump

From bomb +‎ -a.

bomba (present bombar, preterite bombade, supine bombat, imperative bomba)

1. to bomb (attack with bombs)
2. (slang) to bomb (cover in graffiti)
3. (slang) to bomb (swallow a ground-up and wrapped (in for example paper) recreational drug)

• bomba in Svensk ordbok.
• Slangopedia

Borrowed from Spanish bomba. Compare English bombshell.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbomba/ [ˈbom.bɐ]
• Rhymes: -omba
• Syllabification: bom‧ba

bomba (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜋ᜔ᜊ)

1. bomb; explosive
2. pump (device for moving or compressing a liquid or gas)
3. water pump; handpump

   Synonym: poso

4. (volleyball) kill
5. air raid; bomber attack
6. fire engine
7. (colloquial, figurative) verbal attack; revelatory attack (usually in political speeches)
8. (colloquial, figurative) nude scene (of a show)
9. (colloquial, figurative) garden hose; water hose

bomba (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜋ᜔ᜊ)

1. (colloquial, figurative) naked
2. (colloquial, figurative, vulgar) X-rated (of a film)

• bambo

Borrowed from Italian bomba.

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bomba (definite accusative bombayı, plural bombalar)

1. bomb (explosive device used or intended as a weapon)