tumulus

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From Latin tumulus (“mound, hill”), from tumeō (“to swell”). Doublet of tombolo.

37 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bashkir: уба (uba) — mound of earth
• Bulgarian: гробна могила (grobna mogila) — mound of earth
• Czech: mohyla — mound of earth
• Danish: gravhøj — mound of earth
• Dutch: grafheuvel — mound of earth
• Esperanto: tumulo — mound of earth
• Finnish: hautakumpu — mound of earth
• French: tumulus — mound of earth
• Galician: mámoa — mound of earth
• Galician: medorra — mound of earth
• Galician: medoña — mound of earth
• Galician: medela — mound of earth
• Galician: borróa — mound of earth
• Galician: tombo — mound of earth
• Ancient Greek: κολώνη (kolṓnē) — mound of earth
• Ido: tumulo — mound of earth
• Ingrian: kalma — mound of earth
• Ingrian: hautapeentara — mound of earth
• Irish: tuaim — mound of earth
• Irish: dumha — mound of earth
• Irish: tuama — mound of earth
• Japanese: 墳丘墓 (funkyūbo) — mound of earth
• Japanese: 古墳 (kofun) — mound of earth
• Latin: tumulāmen — mound of earth
• Latin: tumulus — mound of earth
• Norwegian Bokmål: gravhaug — mound of earth
• Norwegian Nynorsk: gravhaug — mound of earth
• Polish: kurhan — mound of earth
• Polish: kopiec — mound of earth
• Portuguese: túmulo — mound of earth
• Portuguese: mamoa — mound of earth
• Romanian: tumul — mound of earth
• Russian: курга́н (kurgán) — mound of earth
• Serbo-Croatian: tumulus — mound of earth
• Spanish: túmulo — mound of earth
• Spanish: caballón — mound of earth
• Turkish: tümülüs — mound of earth