tumbă

See also: tumba, Tumba, tumbá, and tumbã

Romanian

Etymology

Possibly an expressive creation from early Romanian based on an onomatopoeic root tumb-, imitating the sound of a fall or abrupt jump (compare French tomber, Catalan and Portuguese tombar, Spanish tumbar, etc.), or alternatively from Greek τούμπα (toúmpa). Also found in Aromanian tumbã.

Noun

tumbă f (plural tumbe)

  1. somersault

Declension

Declension of tumbă
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative tumbă tumba tumbe tumbele
genitive-dative tumbe tumbei tumbe tumbelor
vocative tumbă, tumbo tumbelor

See also

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