different between gombo vs gumbo

English

Noun

gombo (countable and uncountable, plural gombos)

1. Alternative form of gumbo

French

Etymology

Entered into French in the Antilles, ultimately from Kimbundu ingombo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.bo/

Noun

gombo m (plural gombos)

1. okra
2. (Louisiana) gumbo, a soup or stew made with okra
3. (Louisiana) A name for the Louisiana Creole French language.

Synonyms

• (okra): (Louisiana) okra
• (Louisiana Creole French language): courez-venez, français cassé

See also

• gombo filé

References

• “gombo” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

gombo m (plural gombi)

1. okra (Abelmoschus esculentus)

Louisiana Creole French

Etymology

Inherited from French gombo.

Noun

gombo

1. A name for the Louisiana Creole French language.

Synonyms

• kouri-vini
• fransé kasé

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Louisiana French gombo, ultimately from Kimbundu (k)ingombo (“okra”); compare Portuguese quingombó.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?mb??

Noun

gumbo (countable and uncountable, plural gumbos)

1. (countable) Synonym of okra: the plant or its edible capsules.
2. (uncountable) A soup or stew made with okra.
3. (uncountable) A fine silty soil that when wet becomes very thick and heavy.
   • 1909, Ralph Connor, The Foreigner, ch. 11:

     The team stuck fast in the black muck, and every effort to extricate them served only to imbed them more hopelessly in the sticky gumbo.

   • 1914 April, "Making Good Roads by Firing Poor Ones," Popular Mechanics, p. 567:

     There are no poorer roads in all the United States than the "gumbo" roads of the south—gumbo being the name give a certain kind of mud or clay that is particularly sticky, clings tenaciously, seems to have no bottom, and will not support any weight.

   • 1950 July 3, "Labor: Trouble at Lowland," Time:

     The red gumbo soil uttered ugly sucking sounds at the touch of a man's boot.

References

Kalanga

Noun

gumbo

1.  (anatomy) foot

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

gumbo

1. nominative singular of gumba (“swarm”)