bombo
English
Etymology 1
Noun
bombo (plural bombos)
- Short for bombo criollo
Etymology 2
Noun
bombo (uncountable)
- Alternative form of bumbo.
Catalan
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From bomba.
Noun
bombo m (plural bombos)
Hypernyms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
bombo
- first-person singular present indicative of bombar
Further reading
- “bombo”, 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
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbombo/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ombo
- Hyphenation: bom‧bo
Noun
bombo (accusative singular bombon, plural bomboj, accusative plural bombojn)
- bomb (explosive device)
Derived terms
Related terms
Ido
Noun
bombo (plural bombi)
- bomb (explosive device)
Italian
Etymology
Onomatopoeic, from Latin bombum, from bombus (“buzz, humming sound”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbom.bo/
- Rhymes: -ombo
- Hyphenation: bóm‧bo
Noun
bombo m (plural bombi)
Related terms
- bombino (diminutive)
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈbɔm.boː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈbɔm.bo]
Noun
bombō
- dative/ablative singular of bombus
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbõ.bu/
Verb
bombo
- first-person singular present indicative of bombar
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈbombo]
Noun
bombo f
- vocative singular of bombă
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin bombus (“noise”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbombo/ [ˈbõm.bo]
Audio (Venezuela): (file) - Rhymes: -ombo
- Syllabification: bom‧bo
Adjective
bombo (feminine bomba, masculine plural bombos, feminine plural bombas)
- (colloquial, of a person) reckless
- (Cuba, of liquids) having a mild temperature
- (Cuba, of fruit) bland, insipid, flavorless
Interjection
¡bombo!
Noun
bombo m (plural bombos)
- bass drum
- bass drum player
- barge
- noisy or excessive praise
- 1900, Pastor Servando Obligado, Tradiciones argentinas - Primera serie:
- No sólo sus cofrades le aplaudieron, sino los filántropos de entonces que sin lista impresa, ni bombo periodístico, hacían más caridad sin tanto ruido, y los señores González, Goyeneche, Ochoa, de Almarita, el obispo Agramonte, el gobernador Andonaegui, y hasta el mismísimo Rey, desde España, mandó agradecer por su desprendimiento a tan magnífico señor.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (colloquial) the bump (stomach of a pregnant woman)
- atomic bomb
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “bombo”, 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
Sranan Tongo
Etymology
Probably from Proto-Bantu *-bUmbU (“pubes”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bombo/, [bʊ̞mbʊ̞], [bɔ̝mbɔ̝]
Noun
bombo
Verb
bombo
Descendants
- Aukan: bombo
- Saramaccan: boómba
References
- ^ 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 429