tombar

== Catalan == === Etymology === From an onomatopoeic / expressive root tumb- or tomb-, imitating the sound of rolling, tumbling, or falling. Compare French tomber, Spanish tumbar, Romanian tumbă, etc. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (Central) [tumˈba] IPA(key): (Balearic) [tomˈba] IPA(key): (Valencia) [tomˈbaɾ] Rhymes: -a(ɾ) === Verb === tombar (first-person singular present tombo, first-person singular preterite tombí, past participle tombat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /o/ (transitive) to turn (to change the direction of by rotation) (transitive) to flip over, to turn over (to rotate top to bottom) (transitive) to knock down (to hit something so that it falls) (intransitive) to turn, to spin (to move around an axis) ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== tomb tombada === References === === Further reading === “tombar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007 “tombar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua. “tombar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962. == Portuguese == === Etymology === From an onomatopoeic/ expressive root tumb- or tomb-, imitating the sound of rolling, tumbling, or falling. Compare Spanish tumbar, Catalan tombar, French tomber, Romanian tumbă, etc. Possibly a cognate of German taumeln. === Pronunciation === === Verb === tombar (first-person singular present tombo, first-person singular preterite tombei, past participle tombado) to fall down; to tumble (intransitive, euphemistic) to fall (to die, especially in battle) Synonym: cair to put into government protection to register an estate (heritage wise) ==== Conjugation ==== === References === === Further reading === “tombar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “tombar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026