different between gumba vs gumbo

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

gumba (plural gumbas)

1. (US, slang) Alternative form of goombah

Etymology 2

Noun

gumba (countable and uncountable, plural gumbas)

1. Alternative form of goombay

Anagrams

• mbuga

Lindu

Noun

gumba

1. large water jar

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

gumba m

1. a bush, a thicket
2. a troop or swarm

Declension

References

“gumba”, in Pali Text Society, editor, Pali-English Dictionary?, London: Chipstead, 1921-1925.

Sicilian

Etymology

Sicilian-american adaptation of cumpari

Noun

gumba m

1. friend
2. godfather

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”)