tumba

From Spanish tumbar. Cognate with Tagalog tumba.

• Hyphenation: tum‧ba

tumba

1. to fall down
2. to fall over; to topple over
3. to tumble
4. to bump off; to kill, especially to murder

tumba

1. any of two cyprinid fish endemic to Lake Lanao in the Philippines
   1. Barbodes tumba (tumba)`
   2. Barbodes flavifuscus (katapa-tapa)

tumba m (genitive singular tumba, nominative plural tumbaí)

1. alternative form of tuama (“tomb; tombstone”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tumba”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

From Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos), probably from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtʊm.ba]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt̪um.ba]

tumba f (genitive tumbae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) tomb

First-declension noun.

• sepulcrum

• “tumba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tumba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

tumba (plural tumbas)

1. alternative form of tombe (“tomb”)

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

• Rhymes: -ũbɐ
• Hyphenation: tum‧ba

tumba f (plural tumbas)

1. tomb (small building or vault for the remains of the dead)

   Synonym: túmulo

• tumbeiro

• “tumba”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025

tumba

1. war

• IPA^(key): /ˈtumba/ [ˈt̪ũm.ba]

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• Rhymes: -umba
• Syllabification: tum‧ba

Borrowed from Late Latin tumba,^[1] from Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos).

tumba f (plural tumbas)

1. grave, tomb

   Synonym: sepultura

tumba

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

• “tumba”, 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

Borrowed from Spanish tumbar. Compare Cebuano tumba.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /tumˈba/ [t̪ʊmˈba]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: tum‧ba

tumbá (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜋ᜔ᜊ)

1. fallen down (from an upright position)

   Synonyms: tumbado, buwal, nabuwal, bulid, timbuwang, bulagta, handusay, lupasay, lugpo

2. bankrupt (of a business)

   Synonyms: bangkarote, bagsak, tumbado

• tumbado

tumbá (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜋ᜔ᜊ)

1. falling down from an upright position

   Synonyms: buwal, pagbuwal, pagkabuwal

2. condition of having fallen down (from an upright position)
3. (boxing) condition of being knocked out

   Synonyms: bagsak, pagbagsak

4. bankruptcy (of a business)

   Synonyms: bagsak, pagbagsak

Borrowed from Spanish tumba.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈtumba/ [ˈt̪um.bɐ]
• Rhymes: -umba
• Syllabification: tum‧ba

tumba (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜋ᜔ᜊ)

1. tomb

   Synonyms: puntod, nitso, sepulkro, katapalka, mawsoleo

• túńbá
• túúbá

From Arabic تَوْبَة (tawba).

• IPA^(key): /tú.ŋ́.bá/

túḿbá

1. (intransitive) to surrender

   Synonym: fi lélẹ̀

   Synonym: juwọ́ sílẹ̀

   Ebi ló mú ọ̀tá túḿbá. ― It was hunger that made the enemy surrender.

2. (intransitive) to apologize, to show remorse, to repent

   Synonyms: tọrọ àforíjì, bẹ̀, ronúpìwàdà

• ìtúúbá (“surrender, apology”)