porumbă

From porumb (“blueish-grey”), from Latin palumbus (“wood-pigeon”).

The berry is named for its blueish "pigeon"-like colour. Cf. Albanian kullumbri (“sloe”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /poˈrum.bə/
• Rhymes: -umbə
• Hyphenation: po‧rum‧bă

porumbă f (plural porumbe)

1. sloe; fruit of the sloe or blackthorn tree

   Synonym: scoroambă

2. (popular) female dove or pigeon

   Synonym: porumbiță

• porumb (“maize”)
• porumbar (“blackthorn tree”)