# tomba
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈtom.bə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈtom.ba]

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

tomba f (plural tombes)
* tomb

##### Related terms

* tombar

##### References

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

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

tomba
* inflection of tombar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɔ̃.ba/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophone: tombât

### Verb

tomba
* third-person singular past historic of tomber

## Galician
### Etymology

Unknown. Compare Sicilian toppa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtombɐ]

### Noun

tomba f (plural tombas)
* patch, reparation (on a shoe, boot...)

### References

* 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

## Irish
### Noun

tomba m
* Obsolete form of tuama.

### Mutation
## Italian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtom.ba/
* Rhymes: -omba
* Hyphenation: tóm‧ba
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

tomba f (plural tombe)
* tomb, grave
** 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VI”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 97–99; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2nd 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]
* (figurative) a very narrow and gloomy habitation or room (such as a basement or cellar)
* (figurative, archaic) cave or vault
** 1349–1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Giornata terza – Novella ottava”, in Decameron; republished as Aldo Francesco Massera, editor, Il Decameron‎, Bari: Laterza, 1927:L’abate con un monaco bolognese […] levatosi la notte tacitamente, Ferondo trassero della sepoltura, e lui in una tomba […] portaronoSilently 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]‎, lines 513–514; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:Luogo è là giù da Belzebù remoto tanto quanto la tomba si distendeThere'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 nascosehe hid in a vault used to store wheat

#### Synonyms

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

#### Derived terms

* intombare
* tombale

#### Related terms

* ecatombe

## Occitan
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

tomba f (plural tombas) (Languedoc, Limousin)
* tomb, grave
    Holonyms: cementeri, cementèri

### Further reading

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

## Portuguese
### Verb

tomba
* inflection of tombar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Swahili
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-tòmba.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Verb

-tomba (infinitive kutomba)
* (vulgar, slang) to fuck, to have sex with

#### Conjugation

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 future | positive subject concord + -tatomba |
| Negative future | negative subject concord + -tatomba |
| 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 |
| 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 |
Relative forms :
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information. :

#### Derived terms

* Verbal derivations:
** Applicative: -tombea
** Causative: -tombesha
** Passive: -tombwa
** Reciprocal: -tombana
** Stative: -tombeka
* Nominal derivations:
** mtombo

### References

* "Kutomba" on a Swahili-English dictionary