limba

limba (plural limbas)

1. A large African tree, Terminalia superba, whose hard wood is used for furniture, table tennis paddles and musical instruments.
   • 1965, Theodore Geiger (editor), Agrifor and U.S. Plywood in the Congo, Issue 12, page 50,

     This was the wood of the limba tree — a native of the Mayumbe forest — from which is produced a beautifully grained, blond, high-quality veneer for plywood and other uses.

   • 1991, Ján Borota, tropical forests: some African and Asian case studies of composition and structure, Elsevier, page 101,

     Limba occurred in blocks a, c and d and varied from 0.1 to 0.6 exploitable trees per hectare on average.

   • 1994, Richard C. Schultz, Joe P. Colletti (editors), Opportunities for Agroforestry in the Temperate Zone Worldwide: Proceedings of the Third North American Agroforestry Conference, page 242,

     Because of the decline of harvestable Limba trees in natural forests, a reforestation program was then undertaken by the government using local seed sources [5].

• (Terminalia superba): afara

• mbila, milab

• IPA^(key): [ˈlimba]

limba f

1. definite singular nominative form of limbã.
2. definite singular accusative form of limbã.

• Hyphenation: lim‧ba

limba

1. the color pink

limba

1. having a pink colour

• IPA^(key): [ˈlimba]

limba f

1. definite nominative singular of limbă
2. definite accusative singular of limbă

From Latin lingua, from Old Latin *dingua, from Proto-Italic *denɣwā, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s. Compare Romanian limbă.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlimba/

limba f (plural limbas)

1. (anatomy) tongue

   M’apo mossigadu sa limba ― I bit my own tongue

2. language

   Synonym: faeddu

   limba sarda ― Sardinian language

3. speech (faculty of speaking)

   perder sa limba ― to be left speechless (literally, “to lose the tongue”)

   Synonyms: faeddu, paraula