bombard

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• UK: /ˈbɒmˌbɑːd/
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• UK: /ˌbɒmˈbɑːd/
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• US: /bəmˈbɑɹd/
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From Middle English bombard, from Middle French bombarde (“a bombard, mortar, catapult"; also "a bassoon-like musical instrument”), from Latin bombus (“buzzing; booming”). The modern pronunciation is from modern French bombarde.

From French bombarder, from Middle French bombarde (“a bombard”).

48 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: бомба́рда (bombárda) — medieval primitive cannon
• Catalan: bombarda — medieval primitive cannon
• Czech: bombarda — medieval primitive cannon
• Dutch: bombarde — medieval primitive cannon
• Dutch: kartouwe — medieval primitive cannon
• Dutch: geschut — medieval primitive cannon
• French: bombarde — medieval primitive cannon
• Galician: bombarda — medieval primitive cannon
• German: Bombarde — medieval primitive cannon
• German: Donnerbüchse — medieval primitive cannon
• German: Steinbüchse — medieval primitive cannon
• German: Kartaune — medieval primitive cannon
• Greek: βομβάρδα (vomvárda) — medieval primitive cannon
• Ido: bombardilo — medieval primitive cannon
• Latin: bombarda — medieval primitive cannon
• Middle English: bombard — medieval primitive cannon
• Portuguese: bombarda — medieval primitive cannon
• Russian: бомба́рда (bombárda) — medieval primitive cannon
• Spanish: bombarda — medieval primitive cannon
• Dutch: bekogelen — to attack something or someone by directing objects at them
• Finnish: pommittaa — to attack something or someone by directing objects at them
• French: bombarder — to attack something or someone by directing objects at them
• German: bombardieren — to attack something or someone by directing objects at them
• Greek: βομβαρδίζω (vomvardízo) — to attack something or someone by directing objects at them
• Japanese: 浴びせる (abiseru) — to attack something or someone by directing objects at them
• Norman: bombarder — to attack something or someone by directing objects at them
• Polish: bombardować — to attack something or someone by directing objects at them
• Polish: zbombardować — to attack something or someone by directing objects at them
• Portuguese: bombardear — to attack something or someone by directing objects at them
• Russian: бомбарди́ровать (bombardírovatʹ) — to attack something or someone by directing objects at them
• Serbo-Croatian: бомбарди́рати — to attack something or someone by directing objects at them
• Serbo-Croatian: bombardírati — to attack something or someone by directing objects at them
• Spanish: bombardear — to attack something or someone by directing objects at them
• Bulgarian: бомбарди́рам (bombardíram) — to direct at a substance an intense stream of high-energy particles, usually sub-atomic or made of at most a few atoms
• Czech: bombardovat — to direct at a substance an intense stream of high-energy particles, usually sub-atomic or made of at most a few atoms
• Dutch: bombarderen — to direct at a substance an intense stream of high-energy particles, usually sub-atomic or made of at most a few atoms
• French: bombarder — to direct at a substance an intense stream of high-energy particles, usually sub-atomic or made of at most a few atoms
• German: bombardieren — to direct at a substance an intense stream of high-energy particles, usually sub-atomic or made of at most a few atoms
• Greek: βομβαρδίζω (vomvardízo) — to direct at a substance an intense stream of high-energy particles, usually sub-atomic or made of at most a few atoms
• Japanese: 照射する (shōsha suru) — to direct at a substance an intense stream of high-energy particles, usually sub-atomic or made of at most a few atoms
• Norman: bombarder — to direct at a substance an intense stream of high-energy particles, usually sub-atomic or made of at most a few atoms
• Polish: bombardować — to direct at a substance an intense stream of high-energy particles, usually sub-atomic or made of at most a few atoms
• Polish: zbombardować — to direct at a substance an intense stream of high-energy particles, usually sub-atomic or made of at most a few atoms
• Portuguese: bombardear — to direct at a substance an intense stream of high-energy particles, usually sub-atomic or made of at most a few atoms
• Russian: бомбарди́ровать (bombardírovatʹ) — to direct at a substance an intense stream of high-energy particles, usually sub-atomic or made of at most a few atoms
• Serbo-Croatian: бомбарди́рати — to direct at a substance an intense stream of high-energy particles, usually sub-atomic or made of at most a few atoms
• Serbo-Croatian: bombardírati — to direct at a substance an intense stream of high-energy particles, usually sub-atomic or made of at most a few atoms
• Spanish: bombardear — to direct at a substance an intense stream of high-energy particles, usually sub-atomic or made of at most a few atoms