tumbaga

Borrowed from Spanish tumbaga, from Malay tembaga, from Sanskrit ताम्रक (tāmraka). Doublet of tombak.

tumbaga (uncountable)

1. A gold-copper alloy used by the pre-Columbian cultures of Central America to make religious objects.

• IPA^(key): /tumˈba.ɡa/
• Rhymes: -aɡa
• Hyphenation: tum‧bà‧ga

tumbaga f (uncountable)

1. tumbaga

• tumbaga in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Borrowed from Malay tembaga

• (Standard Maguindanaon) IPA^(key): /tumˈbaɡa/ [ʈumˈba.ɡʌ]
• Rhymes: -aɡa
• Syllabification: tum‧ba‧ga

tumbaga

1. copper

tumbaga f (plural tumbagas)

1. tumbaga

• “tumbaga”, 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 tumbaga, from Malay tembaga, from Sanskrit ताम्रक (tāmraka, “copper”) or Sanskrit उडुम्बर (uḍumbara, “copper”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /tumˈbaɡa/ [t̪ʊmˈbaː.ɣɐ]
• Rhymes: -aɡa
• Syllabification: tum‧ba‧ga

tumbaga (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜋ᜔ᜊᜄ)

1. gold-copper alloy

tumbaga (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜋ᜔ᜊᜄ)

1. made of gold-copper alloy

• “tumbaga”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972) Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 572
• Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2016) Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 300

• (Sinūgan Parianun) IPA^(key): /tumbaɡa/ [t̪ʊm.baˈɣɑ]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: tum‧ba‧ga

tumbaga (Sulat Sūg spelling تُمْبَݢَ)

1. brass, bronze
2. copper

tumbaga

1. brass