porumbă

Romanian

Alternative forms

• порумбэ (porumbă) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Etymology

Feminine of porumb or possibly from Vulgar Latin palumba or palumbula, from Latin palumbus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /poˈrum.bə/
• Rhymes: -umbə
• Hyphenation: po‧rum‧bă

Noun

porumbă f (plural porumbe)

1. sloe; fruit of the sloe or blackthorn tree
2. (popular) female dove or pigeon

   Synonym: porumbiță

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	porumbă	porumba		porumbe	porumbele
genitive-dative	porumbe	porumbei		porumbe	porumbelor
vocative	porumbă, porumbo			porumbelor