lombard

lombard (plural lombards)

1. Alternative form of Lombard (“cannon”).
   • 1838, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: American Stationers’ Company; John B. Russell, →OCLC:

     To oppose this , a wooden fortress of the same height was constructed by the assailants , and planted with lombards and other pieces of artillery then in use

   • 1949, Albert Manucy, Artillery Through the Ages: A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America, USA: National Park Service:

     As the Pinta's lookout sighted land on the early morn of October 12, 1492, the firing of a lombard carried the news over the moonlit waters to the flagship Santa Maria.

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lombard

1. pawnbroker

• IPA^(key): /lɔ̃.baʁ/

lombard (feminine lombarde, masculine plural lombards, feminine plural lombardes)

1. Lombard (of, from or relating to the region of Lombardy, Italy)

lombard m (uncountable)

1. the Lombard language
2. the Lombardic language

• “lombard”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from German Lombard. Compare Russian ломба́рд (lombárd) and Ukrainian ломба́рд (lombárd).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɔm.bart/

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• Rhymes: -ɔmbart
• Syllabification: lom‧bard

lombard m inan (related adjective lombardowy)

1. pawnshop, pawnbrokery, pawnbrokerage, hockshop, Lombard house (business premises of a pawnbroker; where loans are made, with personal property as security)

• lombard in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• lombard in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• lombard in PWN's encyclopedia

Borrowed from French lombard.

lombard m (plural lombarzi)

1. Lombard (native or inhabitant of the region of Lombardy, Italy) (usually male)
2. (Moldavia (region)) pawnshop

   Synonym: amanet

From Lombàrdija.

• IPA^(key): /lǒmbaːrd/
• Hyphenation: lom‧bard

lòmbārd m inan (Cyrillic spelling ло̀мба̄рд)

1. pawn, security

• “lombard”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

lombard c

1. Lombard (native or inhabitant of the region of Lombardy, Italy)

• lombardisk

• Lombardiet

• lombard in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• lombard in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)