bombero

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bombero m (plural bomberos)

1. firefighter

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “bombero”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

• bumbero

Borrowed from Spanish bombero.

• IPA^(key): /bomˈbeɾo/ [bomˈbe.ɾo]
• Hyphenation: bom‧be‧ro

bombéro (Basahan spelling ᜊᜓᜋ᜔ᜊᜒᜍᜓ)

1. fireman; firefighter

Borrowed from Spanish bombero.

• Hyphenation: bom‧be‧ro
• IPA^(key): /bomˈbeɾo/ [bomˈbi.ɾ̪o]

bombero (Badlit spelling ᜊᜓᜋ᜔ᜊᜒᜇᜓ)

1. firefighter
2. pumper

From Spanish bombero. The sense "bomber" is a semantic loan from English bomber.

• IPA^(key): /bomˈbeɾo/, [bõmˈbe.ɾo]
• Hyphenation: bom‧be‧ro

bombero

1. firefighter
2. bomber

• → Tausug: bumbiru

From bomba (“pump”) +‎ -ero (compare English bombard).

• IPA^(key): /bomˈbeɾo/ [bõmˈbe.ɾo]

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• Rhymes: -eɾo
• Syllabification: bom‧be‧ro

bombero m (plural bomberos, feminine bombera, feminine plural bomberas)

1. firefighter

• Bombero may also be used in the feminine to refer to a female firefighter, but this usage is nonstandard.

• “bombero”, 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

• bumbero

Borrowed from Spanish bombero. The sense “bomber” is a semantic loan from English bomber. By surface analysis, bomba (“pump; bomb; nude scene”) +‎ -ero.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /bomˈbeɾo/ [bomˈbɛː.ɾo]
• Rhymes: -eɾo
• Syllabification: bom‧be‧ro

bombero (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜋ᜔ᜊᜒᜇᜓ)

1. firefighter; fireman

   Synonyms: mamamatay-sunog, tagapatay-sunog, bantay-sunog

2. (military) bombardier; bomber
3. (colloquial, vulgar) actor of an X-rated film

• himpilan ng bombero

• bombera
• bomba