bombar

From bomba +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [bumˈba]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [bomˈba]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [bomˈbaɾ]

bombar (first-person singular present bombo, first-person singular preterite bombí, past participle bombat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /o/

1. (transitive) to pump (to use a pump to move liquid or gas)
2. (transitive, reflexive) to inflate, to swell
3. (transitive, colloquial) to bomb (to fail dismally)

   Synonym: suspendre

• bombament

• “bombar”, 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
• “bombar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “bombar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “bombar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From bomba +‎ -ar.

• Hyphenation: bom‧bar

bombar (first-person singular present bombo, first-person singular preterite bombei, past participle bombado)

1. (transitive) to pump (to use a pump to move a liquid)
2. (intransitive, colloquial) to rock (to greatly impact, positively)
3. (transitive, intransitive, Portugal, colloquial) to be very loud
4. (transitive, intransitive, colloquial) to be very popular
5. (transitive, intransitive, Brazil, colloquial) to fail (to receive non-passing grades academically)

   Synonym: reprovar

6. (transitive, Brazil, transgender slang) to perform industrial silicone injections on transgender women
   • 2024, Maria Angélica Carvalho Andrade, Francis Sodré, Pablo Cardozo Rocon, Desigualdades sociais em saúde: debates contemporâneos para construção de políticas públicas‎^[1], Editora Rede Unida, →ISBN, page 331:

     Rocon et al.(2017,p.524) descrevem as bombadeiras como travestis ou transexuais mais velhas que dominam a técnica de silicone industrial nos corpos, conhecida como “bombar” ou “bombação”  […]

     Rocon et al.(2017, p.524) describe bombadeiras as older travestis or transgender women who have mastered the technique of injecting industrial silicone into bodies, a practice known as "bombar" or “bombação”  […]

• “bombar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “bombar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “bombar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “bombar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian bumbar.

bombar m (plural bombari)

1. (dated) European hornet (Vespa crabro)

• bombar in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

bombar

1. present indicative of bomba