tombar

From an onomatopoeic / expressive root tumb- or tomb-, imitating the sound of rolling, tumbling, or falling[1]. Compare French tomber, Spanish tumbar, Romanian tumbă, etc.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [tumˈba]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [tomˈba]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [tomˈbaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

tombar (first-person singular present tombo, first-person singular preterite tombí, past participle tombat); root stress: (Central, Valencian, Balearic) /o/

1. (transitive) to turn (to change the direction of by rotation)
2. (transitive) to flip over, to turn over (to rotate top to bottom)
3. (transitive) to knock down (to hit something so that it falls)
4. (intransitive) to turn, to spin (to move around an axis)

• tomb
• tombada

• “tombar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “tombar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “tombar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From an onomatopoeic/ expressive root tumb- or tomb-, imitating the sound of rolling, tumbling, or falling[1].

Compare Spanish tumbar, Catalan tombar, French tomber, Romanian tumbă, etc. Possibly a cognate of German taumeln.

tombar (first-person singular present tombo, first-person singular preterite tombei, past participle tombado)

1. to fall down; to tumble
2. (intransitive, euphemistic) to fall (to die, especially in battle)

   Synonym: cair

3. to put into government protection
4. to register an estate (heritage wise)