pomba

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese poomba (13th century: Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin palumba, from Latin palumbus, from Proto-Indo-European *pal-wo (dark-colored, gray).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɔmba̝/

Noun

pomba f (plural pombas)

  1. pigeon, dove
  2. vane, blade (of a turbine)
    Synonym: pena

Derived terms

References

  • poomb” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • pomba” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  • pomba” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • pomba” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Portuguese

pomba Columba oenas

Etymology

From Old Portuguese poomba, paomba, from Vulgar Latin palumba, from Latin palumbus, from Proto-Indo-European *pal-wo (dark-colored, gray).

Pronunciation

  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈpõ.bɐ/
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈpõ.ba/, /ˈpõ.bɐ/
  • Hyphenation: pom‧ba

Noun

pomba f (plural pombas)

  1. pigeon, dove
  2. (slang) penis (man's genitalia)
  3. (slang) vagina (woman's genitalia)

Synonyms

  • (man's genitalia): here
  • (woman's genitalia): See here


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