lomba

Attested since the 13th century (since the 9th century in local Latin documents); from lombo (“back”). Compare Spanish loma.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlomba̝/

lomba f (plural lombas)

1. hill, hillock
2. ridge
3. speed bump

   Synonym: lombiño

• Lomba
• Lombas

• lombán
• lombeirazo
• lombeiro
• lombelo
• lombo

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “lomba”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “lomba”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “lomba”, 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), “lomba”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “lomba”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• lumba (standard Malay)

From Malay lumba, from Proto-Malayic *lumbaʔ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lumbeq.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɔm.ba/
• Hyphenation: lom‧ba
• Rhymes: -ba, -a

lomba (plural lomba-lomba)

1. race
2. competition, contest

   Synonyms: kompetisi, kontes

• “lomba”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

lomba

1. to ask, to request

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-dómb.

lomba

1. to ask, to request

Borrowed from Kongo lomba.

-lomba (infinitive kolomba)

1. to ask, to request

From lumba.

lomba

1. dolphin

From Portuguese lombo and Kabuverdianu lonbu.

lomba

1. back

From lombo.^[1][2]

• Rhymes: -õbɐ
• Hyphenation: lom‧ba

lomba f (plural lombas)

1. hill, hillock
2. ridge
3. (Portugal) speed bump

   Synonym: (Brazil) lombada

• “lomba”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026

lomba

1. to borrow