bomba

See also: Bomba and bombă

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish bomba.

Noun

bomba (uncountable)

  1. (music) A form of traditional drumming, and an associated form of dance, from Puerto Rico
    • 2009, January 23, Pop and Rock Listings‎:
      This eclectic group is dedicated to preserving the Puerto Rican traditions of bomba and plena, two drum-focused (and African-derived) forms of traditional dance music.

See also

Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin bombus (“noise”).

Noun

bomba f (plural bombes)

  1. bomb
  2. pump

Derived terms

Cebuano

Etymology 1

Calque of English bomb.

Noun

bomba

  1. a bomb; an explosive

Verb

bomba

  1. to bomb; to attack using one or more bombs; to bombard

Etymology 2

Undetermined.

Noun

bomba

  1. (dated) pornography

Adjective

bomba

  1. pornographic

Etymology 3

From Spanish bomba.

Noun

bomba

  1. the pump of a well

Verb

bomba

  1. to pump out water
  2. to pump in air

Chamorro

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish bomba.

Noun

bomba

  1. bomb
  2. pump

Verb

bomba

  1. to bomb
  2. to pump

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈbomba]
  • Rhymes: -omba
  • Hyphenation: bom‧ba

Noun

bomba f

  1. bomb (explosive)
  2. (sports) howitzer (hard shot)
    • 2013, Petr Bílek, Obsluhoval jsem zlatou generaci, Praha: XYZ, →ISBN, page 97:
      Tak, pánové, v moderním hokeji rozhodují vstřelené branky. Kdo jich dá víc, vyhrává. Tak proto musíme dát o jednu bombu k tyči víc než soupeř. Hlavně bomby k tyči a jdeme ma to.

Derived terms

Further reading

  • bomba in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • bomba in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

French

Pronunciation

Verb

bomba

  1. third-person singular past historic of bomber

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈbombɒ]
  • Hyphenation: bom‧ba

Noun

bomba (plural bombák)

  1. bomb

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative bomba bombák
accusative bombát bombákat
dative bombának bombáknak
instrumental bombával bombákkal
causal-final bombáért bombákért
translative bombává bombákká
terminative bombáig bombákig
essive-formal bombaként bombákként
essive-modal — —
inessive bombában bombákban
superessive bombán bombákon
adessive bombánál bombáknál
illative bombába bombákba
sublative bombára bombákra
allative bombához bombákhoz
elative bombából bombákból
delative bombáról bombákról
ablative bombától bombáktól
Possessive forms of bomba
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. bombám bombáim
2nd person sing. bombád bombáid
3rd person sing. bombája bombái
1st person plural bombánk bombáink
2nd person plural bombátok bombáitok
3rd person plural bombájuk bombáik

Derived terms

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch pomp.

Noun

bomba

  1. pump

Irish

Noun

bomba m (genitive singular bomba, nominative plural bombaí)

  1. Alternative form of buama (“bomb”)

Declension

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
bomba bhomba mbomba
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Italian

Noun

bomba f (plural bombe)

  1. bomb

Derived terms

Lithuanian

Noun

bomba f

  1. bomb (device filled with explosives)
    aviacinė bomba ― aerial bomb
    cheminė bomba ― chemical bomb
    laiko bomba ― time bomb
    vandenilio bomba ― hydrogen bomb

Inflection

Derived terms

Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese bomba.

Noun

bomba (plural bomba-bomba)

  1. firefighter, fire brigade
  2. pump

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian bomba.

Noun

bomba f (plural bombi)

  1. bomb

Northern Sami

Etymology

Borrowed from Norwegian bombe.

Pronunciation

  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈpomːpa/

Noun

bomba

  1. bomb

Inflection

Even a-stem, mb-mbb gradation
Nominative bomba
Genitive bombba
Singular Plural
Nominative bomba bombbat
Accusative bombba bombbaid
Genitive bombba bombbaid
Illative bombii bombbaide
Locative bombbas bombbain
Comitative bombbain bombbaiguin
Essive bomban
Possessive forms
Singular Dual Plural
1st person bomban bombame bombamet
2nd person bombat bombade bombadet
3rd person bombas bombaska bombaset

Norwegian

Adjective

bomba

  1. (figuratively, slang, of a location) As if a bombshell had gone off; extremely untidy.

Compounds

  • bomba horehus

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

Noun

bomba m sg, f sg

  1. definite singular of bombe

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

Verb

bomba

  1. simple past of bombe
  2. past participle of bombe

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

bomba f sg

  1. definite singular of bombe

Verb

bomba

  1. past of bombe

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɔm.ba/
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Noun

bomba f (plural bomby)

  1. bomb
  2. Clipping of bomba kryptologiczna (an electromechanical machine used to break the German Enigma cipher).

Declension

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian bomba, from Latin bombus (“a booming sound”), from Ancient Greek βόμβος (bómbos, “booming, humming, buzzing”).

Pronunciation

Noun

bomba f (plural bombas)

  1. bomb
  2. pump
  • bombar (“to be very popular”)

Descendants

Verb

bomba

  1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of bombar
  2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of bombar

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bôːmba/
  • Hyphenation: bom‧ba

Noun

bȏmba f (Cyrillic spelling бо̑мба)

  1. bomb

Declension

Slovak

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɔmba/

Noun

bomba f (genitive singular bomby, nominative plural bomby, genitive plural bômb, declension pattern of žena)

  1. bomb (explosive)

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • bomba in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Slovene

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbóːmba/
  • Tonal orthography: bọ̑mba

Noun

bómba f (genitive bómbe, nominative plural bómbe)

  1. bomb

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin bombus (“noise”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbomba/, [ˈbõmba]

Adjective

bomba

  1. Feminine singular of adjective bombo.

Noun

bomba f (plural bombas)

  1. bomb
  2. pump
  3. adjustable metal slide used to tune brass instruments
  4. lamp globe
  5. something unusual producing excitement
  6. something extraordinary
  7. smash hit
  8. high-hat
  9. (Latin America) firecracker

Derived terms

(diminutive bombilla or bombita)

Further reading

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese bomba.

Noun

bomba (ma class, plural mabomba)

  1. pipe, pipeline
  2. pump

Swedish

Etymology

From bomb +‎ -a.

Verb

bomba

  1. to bomb (attack with bombs)

Conjugation

Derived terms

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish bomba.

Noun

bomba

  1. bomb

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian bomba.

Noun

bomba (definite accusative bombayı, plural bombalar)

  1. bomb (explosive device used or intended as a weapon)

Declension

Inflection
Nominative bomba
Definite accusative bombayı
Singular Plural
Nominative bomba bombalar
Definite accusative bombayı bombaları
Dative bombaya bombalara
Locative bombada bombalarda
Ablative bombadan bombalardan
Genitive bombanın bombaların
Possessive forms
Singular Plural
1st singular bombam bombalarım
2nd singular bomban bombaların
3rd singular bombası bombaları
1st plural bombamız bombalarımız
2nd plural bombanız bombalarınız
3rd plural bombaları bombaları
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