lumba-lumba

See also: lumbalumba

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay lumba-lumba, reduplication of lumba (“race; running competition”) (Indonesian lomba), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lumbəq.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlʊm.ba ˈlʊm.ba/

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Noun

lumba-lumba (plural lumba-lumba)

1. dolphin (aquatic mammal)

   Synonyms: dolfin, pesut

Further reading

• “lumba-lumba” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Malay

Alternative forms

• lelumba

Etymology

Reduplication of lumba (“race; running competition”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lumbəq.

Pronunciation

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /lum.bə lum.bə/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /lum.ba lum.ba/
• Rhymes: -a

Noun

lumba-lumba (Jawi spelling ٢ لومبا, plural lumba-lumba-lumba-lumba, informal 1st possessive lumba-lumbaku, 2nd possessive lumba-lumbamu, 3rd possessive lumba-lumbanya)

1. dolphin (aquatic mammal)

   Synonym: dolfin

Descendants

• Indonesian: lumba-lumba

Further reading

• “lumba-lumba” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
• "lumba-lumba" in Kamus Dewan, Fourth Edition, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, →ISBN, 2005.

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• lumbalumba

Etymology

Possibly borrowed from Malay lumba-lumba, or analytically a reduplication of lumba.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /lumˌbalumˈba/ [lʊmˌbaː.lʊmˈba]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: lum‧ba-lum‧ba

Noun

lumbá-lumbá (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜓᜋ᜔ᜊᜎᜓᜋ᜔ᜊ)

1. dolphin

   Synonyms: delpin, lampasot

See also

• mayohon

Further reading

• “lumba-lumba”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018