pomba

From Old Galician-Portuguese poomba (13th century: Cantigas de Santa Maria), from earlier Old Galician-Portuguese paomba, from Proto-Ibero-Romance palomba, from Vulgar Latin palumba, from Latin palumbus, from Proto-Indo-European *pal-wo (“dark-colored, gray”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔmba̝/

pomba f (plural pombas)

1. dove, pigeon
2. vane, blade (of a turbine)

   Synonym: pena

• pombal
• Pombeiro
• pombela
• pombo

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “poomb”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pomba”, 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), “pomba”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pomba”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Old Galician-Portuguese poomba (13th century: Cantigas de Santa Maria), from earlier Old Galician-Portuguese paomba, from Proto-Ibero-Romance palomba, from Vulgar Latin palumba, from Latin palumbus, from Proto-Indo-European *pal-wo (“dark-colored, gray”).

• Rhymes: -õbɐ
• Hyphenation: pom‧ba

pomba f (plural pombas, masculine pombo, masculine plural pombos)

1. dove
2. female pigeon
3. (Ceará, vulgar) penis (man's genitalia)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pénis

4. (dialectal, vulgar) vagina (woman's genitalia)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vagina

• Pomba Gira (unrelated)

pomba!

1. alternative form of pombas!

• “pomba”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025