tomba

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

Inherited from Old Catalan tomba, inherited from Late Latin tumba, from Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos).

tomba f (plural tombes)

1. tomb

• tombar

• “tomba” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

tomba

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

• IPA^(key): /tɔ̃.ba/

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• Homophone: tombât

tomba

1. third-person singular past historic of tomber

Unknown. Compare Sicilian toppa.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtombɐ]

tomba f (plural tombas)

1. patch, reparation (on a shoe, boot...)

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “tomba”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “tomba”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “tomba”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

tomba m

1. obsolete form of tuama

From Late Latin tumba, from Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtom.ba/
• Rhymes: -omba
• Hyphenation: tóm‧ba

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tomba f (plural tombe)

1. tomb, grave
   • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VI”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 97–99; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     ciascun rivederà la trista tomba,
     ripiglierà sua carne e sua figura,
     udirà quel ch’in etterno rimbomba".

     each one shall find their dismal tomb again, shall take back their flesh and their appearance, shall hear that which eternally resounds [the Final Judgment]

2. (figurative) a very narrow and gloomy habitation or room (such as a basement or cellar)
3. (figurative, archaic) cave or vault
   • 1349–1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Giornata terza – Novella ottava”, in Decameron; republished as Aldo Francesco Massera, editor, Il Decameron‎^[1], Bari: Laterza, 1927:

     L’abate con un monaco bolognese […] levatosi la notte tacitamente, Ferondo trassero della sepoltura, e lui in una tomba […] portarono

     Silently waking up at night, the abbot, together with a Bolognese monk, took Ferondo from his burial site, and brought him to a vault

   • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXXIV”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 513–514; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Luogo è là giù da Belzebù remoto
     tanto quanto la tomba si distende

     There's a place below, as far away as the cave extends

   • 1532, Niccolò Machiavelli, Istorie Fiorentine, page 149:

     in una tomba fatta per conservare frumento si nascose

     he hid in a vault used to store wheat

• sepolcro, sepoltura; arca, avello, tumulo (literary)

• intombare
• tombale

• ecatombe

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tomba f (plural tombas) (Languedoc, Limousin)

1. tomb, grave

   Holonyms: cementeri, cementèri

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 598.

tomba

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

From Proto-Bantu *-tòmba.

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-tomba (infinitive kutomba)

1. (vulgar, slang) to fuck, to have sex with

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -tombea
  • Causative: -tombesha
  • Passive: -tombwa
  • Reciprocal: -tombana
  • Stative: -tombeka

• Nominal derivations:
  • mtombo

• "Kutomba" on a Swahili-English dictionary