zombi

zombi (plural zombis)

1. Alternative spelling of zombie.
   • 2010, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, page 186:

     The spirit zombi, or the zombi of the ti bon ange alone, is carefully stored in a jar and may later be magically transmuted into insects, animals, or humans in order to accomplish the particular work of the bokor.

• zombi apple

• Zimbo, zimbo

zombi m or f by sense (plural zombis)

1. zombie

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [ˈzɔmbi]
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [ˈzɔmbi]

zombi m (plural zombis)

1. zombie

• Cornish-English Dictionary from Maga's Online Dictionary
• Akademi Kernewek Gerlyver Kernewek (FSS) Cornish Dictionary (SWF) (in Cornish), 2018, published 2018, page 194

From English zombie.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsomb̥i/

zombi (genitive zombi, partitive zombit)

1. zombie

Declension of zombi (ÕS type 16/pere, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		zombi	zombid
accusative	nom.
	gen.	zombi
genitive			zombide
partitive		zombit	zombisid
illative		zombisse	zombidesse
inessive		zombis	zombides
elative		zombist	zombidest
allative		zombile	zombidele
adessive		zombil	zombidel
ablative		zombilt	zombidelt
translative		zombiks	zombideks
terminative		zombini	zombideni
essive		zombina	zombidena
abessive		zombita	zombideta
comitative		zombiga	zombidega

From English zombie.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtsombi/, [ˈts̠o̞mbi]
• IPA^(key): /ˈzombi/, [ˈzo̞mbi]
• Rhymes: -ombi
• Syllabification^(key): zom‧bi
• Hyphenation^(key): zom‧bi

zombi

1. zombie

• “zombi”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 4 July 2023

• zombie (more common)

Attested 1832, but the 1765 Encyclopédie (t. 11, p. 82a, s.v. nègre) already has zambys «dieux esprits des tribus africaines». Borrowed from Haitian Creole zonbi, from a Bantu language.

• IPA^(key): /zɔ̃.bi/

• Audio:

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zombi m (plural zombis, feminine zombie)

1. zombie (undead person)

zombi (feminine zombie, masculine plural zombis, feminine plural zombies)

1. zombie

• zombique

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈzombi]
• Hyphenation: zom‧bi
• Rhymes: -bi

zombi (plural zombik)

1. zombie

• zombiapokalipszis

• zombie

• IPA^(key): ^*/ˈd͡zom.bi/^[1]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ombi
• Hyphenation: zóm‧bi

zombi m or f by sense (invariable)

1. zombie
2. (slang, figurative) a dull, unlively, and/or ugly person

   E tu stai zitto, ché esci dalle studiate serali che sei uno zombie!

   And you shut up, coming out of nightly study sessions looking like a zombie!

   Ragazzi fidatevi, questa prof è uno(/a) zombie.

   Guys trust me, this teacher is one zombie.

• Most often spelled zombie, like English zombie.

• zombi in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• zombi in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa

Borrowed from English zombie.

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɔm.bi/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔmbi
• Syllabification: zom‧bi

zombi m animal (indeclinable)

1. (computing, fiction, voodoo) alternative spelling of zombie

• zombi in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• zombi in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French zombi.

zombi m (plural zombi)

1. zombie (the undead)

• zombia f, zombie m

Ultimately from a Bantu language.

• IPA^(key): [ˈzɔmbi]

zombi m pers

1. zombie

May also be indeclineable.

• “zombi”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Borrowed from English zombie.

• IPA^(key): /ˈθombi/ [ˈθõm.bi] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˈsombi/ [ˈsõm.bi] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -ombi
• Syllabification: zom‧bi

zombi m or f by sense (plural zombis or zombies)

1. zombie

• zombie

• “zombi”, 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 English zombie.

• Audio (Kenya):

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zombi class IX (plural zombi class X)

1. zombie

• IPA^(key): [ˈzom.bi]
• Hyphenation: zom‧bi

zombi (definite accusative zombiyi, plural zombiler)

1. zombie