tomb

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• UK: /tuːm/
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• US: /tum/
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• South-Asia: /ʈumb/
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• rhymes with -uːm
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• CMU ARPABET: T UW1 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Perhaps a variant spelling of Tom, with excrescent -b.

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”). Displaced native Old English þrūh. The verb is from Middle English tomben.

146 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: varr — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Antillean Creole: tonm — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Arabic: قَبْر (qabr) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Arabic: ضَرِيح (ḍarīḥ) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Arabic: تربة (turba) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Arabic: قَبُر (gabur) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Arabic: ضَريح (ḍarīḥ) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Arabic: قبر (qbar) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Aramaic: ܩܲܒ݂ܪܵܐ (qaḇrāʾ) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Turoyo: ܩܰܘܪܳܐ (qawro) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Armenian: դամբարան (dambaran) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Aromanian: tumbã — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Aromanian: murmintu — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Azerbaijani: məzar — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Azerbaijani: məqbərə — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Bashkir: ҡәбер (qəber) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Belarusian: грабні́ца (hrabníca) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Belarusian: магі́льня (mahílʹnja) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Bengali: কবর (kobor) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Bengali: সমাধি (śomadhi) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Bulgarian: гробни́ца (grobníca) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Burmese: ဂူ (gu) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Catalan: tomba — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Chichewa: manda — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Chinese Cantonese: 墳墓 /坟墓 (fan4 mou6) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Chinese Mandarin: 墳墓 /坟墓 (fénmù) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Chinese Mandarin: 墓葬 (mùzàng) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Chinese Mandarin: 宅兆 (zháizhào) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Maore Comorian: kaɓuri — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Coptic: ⲙϩⲁⲩ (mhau) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Czech: hrobka — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Danish: grav — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Danish: gravkammer — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Dutch: tombe — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Egyptian: q:r-s-Q6 (qrs) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Egyptian: HA-A-t:O1 (ḥꜣt) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Egyptian: m-P6-t:pr (mꜥḥꜥt) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Esperanto: tombo — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Estonian: hauakamber — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Faliscan: cela — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Finnish: hauta — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Finnish: hautakappeli — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Finnish: hautakammio — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• French: tombeau — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• French: tombe — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Old French: tumbel — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Old French: tombel — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Middle French: tumbeau — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Middle French: tombeau — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Friulian: tombe — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Galician: túmulo — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Galician: sepulcro — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Galician: tumba — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Georgian: საფლავი (saplavi) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• German: Grabmal — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• German: Gruft — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Greek: τάφος (táfos) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Greek: ταφικό μνημείο (tafikó mnimeío) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Ancient Greek: τύμβος (túmbos) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Haitian Creole: tonm — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Hindi: क़ब्र (qabr) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Hindi: समाधि (samādhi) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Hungarian: sír — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Hungarian: síremlék — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Ido: tombo — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Irish: tuama — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Italian: tomba — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Japanese: 墓 (haka) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Japanese: 墳墓 (funbo) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Kazakh: қабір (qabır) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Kazakh: мазар (mazar) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Kazakh: мола (mola) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Khmer: ផ្នូរ (phnou) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Khmer: លេណក (leinɑk) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Korean: 무덤 (mudeom) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Korean: 분묘 (bunmyo) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Northern Kurdish: mezel — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Kyrgyz: мүрзө (mürzö) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Lao: ຂຸມຝັງສົບ (khum fang sop) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Lao: ຂຸມຜີ (khum phī) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Lao: ຂຸມເຮ່ວ (khum h) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Latin: tumba — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Latin: conditorium — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Latin: bustum — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Macedonian: гробница (grobnica) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Malay: makam — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Māori: toma — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Māori: toma tūpāpaku — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Mongolian: бунхан (bunxan) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Norman: sépultuthe — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Norwegian Bokmål: gravkammer — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Occitan: tomba — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Iranian Persian: مَزار (mazâr) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Iranian Persian: آرامْگاه (ârâmgâh) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Iranian Persian: قَبْر (ġabr) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Iranian Persian: مَقْبَرِه (maġbare) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Polish: grobowiec — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Portuguese: túmulo — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Portuguese: tumba — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Portuguese: jazigo — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Romanian: mormânt — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Russian: гробни́ца (grobníca) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Russian: склеп (sklep) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Sardinian: molimentu — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Sardinian: morimentu — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Sardinian: molumentu — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Sardinian: mulimentu — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Sardinian: murimentu — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Serbo-Croatian: гро̏бница — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Serbo-Croatian: grȍbnica — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Slovak: hrobka — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Slovene: grobnica — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Lower Sorbian: rownišćo — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Lower Sorbian: krypta — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Southern Altai: межик (mežik) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Spanish: tumba — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Tajik: мақбара (maqbara) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Tajik: қабр (qabr) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Tajik: мазор (mazor) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Tajik: мазар (mazar) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Tarifit: anḍer — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Tetum: rate — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Thai: ที่ฝังศพ (tîi-fǎng-sòp) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Turkish: mezar — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Turkmen: mazar — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Turkmen: gubur — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Ugaritic: 𐎃𐎌𐎚 (ḫšt) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Ukrainian: гробни́ця (hrobnýcja) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Urdu: قَبْر (qabr) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Urdu: مَزار (mazār) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Urdu: مَدْفَن (madfan) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Urdu: مَقْبَرَہ (maqbara) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Urdu: مَرْقَد (marqad) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Uyghur: قەبرە (qebre) — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Uzbek: maqbara — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Uzbek: qabr — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Vietnamese: mộ — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Vietnamese: lăng tẩm — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Vietnamese: phần mộ — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Walloon: tombe — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Welsh: bedd — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Welsh: beddrod — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Yámana: wannače — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Zazaki: mezel — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Zazaki: qub — small building or vault for the remains of the dead
• Spanish: tumba — pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited