tumbă

See also: tumba, Tumba, tumbá, and tumbã

Romanian

Etymology

Possibly an expressive creation from early Romanian based on an onomatopoeic root tumb-, imitating the sound of a fall or abrupt jump (compare French tomber, Catalan and Portuguese tombar, Spanish tumbar, etc.), or alternatively from Greek τούμπα (toúmpa). Also found in Aromanian tumbã.

Noun

tumbă f (plural tumbe)

1. somersault

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	tumbă	tumba		tumbe	tumbele
genitive-dative	tumbe	tumbei		tumbe	tumbelor
vocative	tumbă, tumbo			tumbelor

See also

• rostogolire