tombo

tombo

1. first-person singular present indicative form of tombar

Borrowed from English tomb and French tombe.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtombo/
• Hyphenation: tom‧bo
• Rhymes: -ombo

tombo (accusative singular tombon, plural tomboj, accusative plural tombojn)

1. tomb, grave, sepulchre

• tomboŝtono (“tombstone”)

• tombejo (“cemetery”)

From Esperanto tombo, from English tomb, French tombe, Italian tomba, Spanish tumba, from Latin tumba, from Ancient Greek τύμβα (túmba).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtom.bo/

tombo (plural tombi)

1. tomb, grave
2. tombstone

• tombeyo (“graveyard, cemetery”)

Hinde (1904) records toombo as an equivalent of English brain in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]

• IPA^(key): /tɔ̀ᵐbɔ́/

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩng'ang'i, ngũkũ, kĩeha, and so on.

• (Kiambu)

• (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including hiti, icembe, igoko (pl. magoko), ihĩtia (pl. mahĩtia), itumbĩ (pl. matumbĩ), kĩeha, kĩng'ang'i, mũhikania, mũhũmũ, mũkanda, mbica, nduka, ngingo, ngũkũ, rũthanju, and so on.[2]

tombo class 14 (plural matombo)

1. brain

• kĩongo

• “tombo” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 458. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

tombo

1. allotment; quota
2. prize
3. wage; pay

Back-formation from tombar.

tombo m (plural tombos)

1. tumble; fall
2. an inventory of real estate

tombo

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of tombar

• IPA^(key): /ˈtombo/, [ˈt̪õmbo]

tombo m (plural tombos)

1. (slang) cop