tomba

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈtom.bə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈtom.ba]

Inherited from Old Catalan tomba, inherited from Late Latin tumba, from Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos).

tomba f (plural tombes)

1. tomb

• tombar

• “tomba” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

tomba

1. inflection of tombar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /tɔ̃.ba/

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• Homophone: tombât

tomba

1. third-person singular past historic of tomber

Unknown. Compare Sicilian toppa.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtombɐ]

tomba f (plural tombas)

1. patch, reparation (on a shoe, boot...)

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “tomba”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “tomba”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “tomba”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

tomba m

1. Obsolete form of tuama.

From Late Latin tumba, from Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtom.ba/
• Rhymes: -omba
• Hyphenation: tóm‧ba

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tomba f (plural tombe)

1. tomb, grave
   • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VI”, in Inferno [Hell]‎^[1], lines 97–99; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎^[2], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     ciascun rivederà la trista tomba,
     ripiglierà sua carne e sua figura,
     udirà quel ch’in etterno rimbomba".

     each one shall find their dismal tomb again, shall take back their flesh and their appearance, shall hear that which eternally resounds [the Final Judgment]

2. (figurative) a very narrow and gloomy habitation or room (such as a basement or cellar)
3. (figurative, archaic) cave or vault
   • 1349–1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Giornata terza – Novella ottava”, in Decameron; republished as Aldo Francesco Massera, editor, Il Decameron‎^[3], Bari: Laterza, 1927:

     L’abate con un monaco bolognese […] levatosi la notte tacitamente, Ferondo trassero della sepoltura, e lui in una tomba […] portarono

     Silently waking up at night, the abbot, together with a Bolognese monk, took Ferondo from his burial site, and brought him to a vault

   • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXXIV”, in Inferno [Hell]‎^[4], lines 513–514; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎^[5], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Luogo è là giù da Belzebù remoto
     tanto quanto la tomba si distende

     There's a place below, as far away as the cave extends

   • 1532, Niccolò Machiavelli, Istorie Fiorentine, page 149:

     in una tomba fatta per conservare frumento si nascose

     he hid in a vault used to store wheat

• sepolcro, sepoltura; arca, avello, tumulo (literary)

• intombare
• tombale

• ecatombe

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tomba f (plural tombas) (Languedoc, Limousin)

1. tomb, grave

   Holonyms: cementeri, cementèri

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 598.

tomba

1. inflection of tombar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Proto-Bantu *-tòmba.

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-tomba (infinitive kutomba)

1. (vulgar, slang) to fuck, to have sex with

Conjugation of -tomba
Positive present -natomba Subjunctive -tombe Negative -tombi Imperative singular tomba
Infinitives
Positive kutomba Negative kutotomba
Imperatives
Singular tomba Plural tombeni
Tensed forms
Habitual hutomba Positive past positive subject concord + -litomba Negative past negative subject concord + -kutomba
Positive present (positive subject concord + -natomba) Singular Plural 1st person ninatomba/natomba tunatomba 2nd person unatomba mnatomba 3rd person m-wa(I/II) anatomba wanatomba other classes positive subject concord + -natomba
Negative present (negative subject concord + -tombi) Singular Plural 1st person sitombi hatutombi 2nd person hutombi hamtombi 3rd person m-wa(I/II) hatombi hawatombi other classes negative subject concord + -tombi
Positive future positive subject concord + -tatomba Negative future negative subject concord + -tatomba
Positive subjunctive (positive subject concord + -tombe) Singular Plural 1st person nitombe tutombe 2nd person utombe mtombe 3rd person m-wa(I/II) atombe watombe other classes positive subject concord + -tombe
Negative subjunctive positive subject concord + -sitombe Positive present conditional positive subject concord + -ngetomba Negative present conditional positive subject concord + -singetomba Positive past conditional positive subject concord + -ngalitomba Negative past conditional positive subject concord + -singalitomba
Gnomic (positive subject concord + -atomba) Singular Plural 1st person natomba twatomba 2nd person watomba mwatomba 3rd person m-wa(I/II) atomba watomba m-mi(III/IV) watomba yatomba ji-ma(V/VI) latomba yatomba ki-vi(VII/VIII) chatomba vyatomba n(IX/X) yatomba zatomba u(XI) watomba see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) kwatomba pa(XVI) patomba mu(XVIII) mwatomba
Perfect positive subject concord + -metomba "Already" positive subject concord + -meshatomba "Not yet" negative subject concord + -jatomba "If/When" positive subject concord + -kitomba "If not" positive subject concord + -sipotomba Consecutive katomba / positive subject concord + -katomba Consecutive subjunctive positive subject concord + -katombe
Object concord (indicative positive) Singular Plural 1st person -nitomba -tutomba 2nd person -kutomba -watomba/-kutombeni/-watombeni 3rd person m-wa(I/II) -mtomba -watomba m-mi(III/IV) -utomba -itomba ji-ma(V/VI) -litomba -yatomba ki-vi(VII/VIII) -kitomba -vitomba n(IX/X) -itomba -zitomba u(XI) -utomba see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -kutomba pa(XVI) -patomba mu(XVIII) -mutomba Reflexive -jitomba
Relative forms General positive (positive subject concord + (object concord) + -tomba- + relative marker) Singular Plural m-wa(I/II) -tombaye -tombao m-mi(III/IV) -tombao -tombayo ji-ma(V/VI) -tombalo -tombayo ki-vi(VII/VIII) -tombacho -tombavyo n(IX/X) -tombayo -tombazo u(XI) -tombao see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -tombako pa(XVI) -tombapo mu(XVIII) -tombamo Other forms (subject concord + tense marker + relative marker + (object concord) + -tomba) Singular Plural m-wa(I/II) -yetomba -otomba m-mi(III/IV) -otomba -yotomba ji-ma(V/VI) -lotomba -yotomba ki-vi(VII/VIII) -chotomba -vyotomba n(IX/X) -yotomba -zotomba u(XI) -otomba see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -kotomba pa(XVI) -potomba mu(XVIII) -motomba
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information.

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -tombea
  • Causative: -tombesha
  • Passive: -tombwa
  • Reciprocal: -tombana
  • Stative: -tombeka

• Nominal derivations:
  • mtombo

• "Kutomba" on a Swahili-English dictionary