# tomb
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English tombe, toumbe, borrowed from Old French tombe, from Latin tumba from Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos, “a sepulchral mound, tomb, grave”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”).
The verb is from Middle English tomben.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /tuːm/
* (US) IPA: /tum/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -uːm

### Noun

tomb (plural tombs)
* A small building (or "vault") for the remains of the dead, with walls, a roof, and (if it is to be used for more than one corpse) a door. It may be partly or wholly in the ground (except for its entrance) in a cemetery, or it may be inside a church proper or in its crypt. Single tombs may be permanently sealed; those for families (or other groups) have doors for access whenever needed.
* A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave.
** c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.
* One who keeps secrets.
** 1912, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, translated by Constance Garnett, The Brothers Karamazov, published 1880, Book III, chapter 4:I never told anyone about it. You're the first, except Ivan, of course—Ivan knows everything. He knew about it long before you. But Ivan's a tomb.

#### Derived terms

* altar tomb
* beehive tomb
* disentomb
* empty as the tomb on Easter
* entomb
* from the womb to the tomb
* from womb to tomb
* passage tomb
* Severn-Cotswold tomb
* silent as the tomb
* tomb bat
* tombless
* tomblike
* tombstone
* wedge tomb

#### Descendants

* → Irish: tuama
* → Maori: toma

#### Translations

Albanian: varr (sq) m
Antillean Creole: tonm
Arabic: قَبْر (ar) m (qabr), ضَرِيح m (ḍarīḥ)
Egyptian Arabic: تربة m (turba)
Hijazi Arabic: قَبُر m (gabur), ضَريح m (ḍarīḥ)
Moroccan Arabic: قبر m (qbar)
Aramaic:
Classical Syriac: ܩܲܒ݂ܪܵܐ m (qaḇrāʾ)
Turoyo: ܩܰܘܪܳܐ m (qawro)
Armenian: դամբարան (hy) (dambaran)
Aromanian: tumbã f, murmintu m
Azerbaijani: məzar, məqbərə
Bashkir: ҡәбер (qəber)
Belarusian: грабні́ца f (hrabníca), магі́льня f (mahílʹnja)
Bengali: কবর (bn) (kobor), সমাধি (bn) (śomadhi)
Bulgarian: гробни́ца (bg) f (grobníca)
Burmese: ဂူ (my) (gu)
Catalan: tomba (ca) f
Chichewa: manda
Chinese:
Cantonese: 墳墓 / 坟墓 (fan$^4$ mou$^6$)
Mandarin: 墳墓 / 坟墓 (zh) (fénmù), 墓葬 (zh) (mùzàng), 宅兆 (zh) (zháizhào)
Czech: hrobka (cs) f
Danish: grav (da) c, gravkammer n
Dutch: tombe (nl) f or m
Egyptian: (qrs), (ḥꜣt), (mꜥḥꜥt f)
Esperanto: tombo (eo)
Estonian: hauakamber
Faliscan: cela
Finnish: hauta (fi), hautakappeli (fi), hautakammio (fi)
French: tombe (fr) f, tombeau (fr) m
Friulian: tombe f
Galician: túmulo (gl) m, sepulcro (gl) m, tumba f
Georgian: საფლავი (ka) (saplavi)
German: Grabmal (de) n, Gruft (de) f
Greek: τάφος (el) m (táfos), ταφικό μνημείο n (tafikó mnimeío)
Ancient: τύμβος m (túmbos)
Haitian Creole: tonm
Hindi: क़ब्र f (qabr), समाधि (hi) (samādhi)
Hungarian: sír (hu), síremlék (hu)
Ido: tombo (io)
Irish: tuama m
Italian: tomba (it) f
Japanese: 墓 (ja) (はか, haka), 墳墓 (ja) (ふんぼ, funbo)
Kazakh: қабір (qabır), мазар (mazar), мола (mola)
Khmer: ផ្នូរ (km) (phnou), លេណក (leinɑk)
Korean: 무덤 (ko) (mudeom), 분묘(墳墓) (ko) (bunmyo)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: mezel (ku)
Kyrgyz: мүрзө (ky) (mürzö)
Lao: ຂຸມຝັງສົບ (khum fang sop), ຂຸມຜີ (khum phī), ຂຸມເຮ່ວ (khum hē wa)
Latin: tumba f, conditorium n, bustum n
Macedonian: гробница f (grobnica)
Malay: makam (ms)
Maore Comorian: kaɓuri class 5/6
Maori: toma, toma tūpāpaku
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: бунхан (mn) (bunxan)
Norman: sépultuthe f (Jersey)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: gravkammer n
Occitan: tomba (oc) f
Persian:
Iranian Persian: مَزار (mazâr), آرامْگاه (ârâmgâh), قَبْر (ğabr), مَقْبَرِه (mağbare)
Polish: grobowiec (pl) m
Portuguese: túmulo (pt) m, tumba (pt) f, jazigo (pt) m
Romanian: mormânt (ro) n
Russian: гробни́ца (ru) f (grobníca), склеп (ru) m (sklep)
Sardinian: molimentu ?, morimentu ?, molumentu ?, mulimentu ?, murimentu ?
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: гро̏бница f
Roman: grȍbnica (sh) f
Slovak: hrobka (sk) f
Slovene: grobnica (sl) f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: rownišćo n, krypta f
Spanish: tumba (es) f
Tajik: мақбара (maqbara), қабр (tg) (qabr), мазор (mazor), мазар (mazar)
Tarifit: anḍer m
Tetum: rate
Thai: ที่ฝังศพ (tîi-fǎng-sòp)
Turkish: mezar (tr)
Turkmen: mazar, gubur
Ugaritic: 𐎃𐎌𐎚 (ḫšt)
Ukrainian: гробни́ця (uk) f (hrobnýcja)
Urdu: قَبْر f (qabr), مَزار f (mazār), مَدْفَن m (madfan), مَقْبَرَہ m (maqbara), مَرْقَد m (marqad)
Uyghur: قەبرە (qebre)
Uzbek: maqbara (uz), qabr (uz)
Vietnamese: mộ (vi), lăng tẩm (vi), phần mộ (vi)
Walloon: tombe (wa) f
Welsh: bedd (cy) m, beddrod (cy) m
Yámana: wannače
Zazaki: mezel, qub :

### Verb

tomb (third-person singular simple present tombs, present participle tombing, simple past and past participle tombed)
* (transitive) To bury.

## Catalan
### Etymology

Deverbal of tombar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈtom]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈtomp]
* Homophone: tom (Central)

### Noun

tomb m (plural tombs)
* turn (change of direction)
* turn, twist (movement around an axis)
* turn (change of temperament or circumstance)
* walk, stroll

#### Derived terms

* tomballar
* venir a tomb

### Further reading

* “tomb” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Middle English
### Noun

tomb (plural tombes)
* Alternative form of tombe (“tomb”)