different between gumbo vs rumbo

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”)

English

Etymology

Arbitrary extension of rum; or perhaps compare rumbullion.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?mb??

Noun

rumbo (uncountable)

1. (now rare, archaic) A type of punch made chiefly from rum; grog. [from 18th c.]
   • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, I.2:

     Your worship would have seen him before now; for, when he is well, he and my good master Hatchway come hither every evening, and drink a couple of canns of rumbo apiece […] .

Anagrams

• Borum, Mbour, Umbro-

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin rhombus (“rhombus”), based on the use of a rhombus to indicate directions on a map; it forms a doublet with rombo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?rumbo/, [?r?m.bo]

Noun

rumbo m (plural rumbos)

1. course

   Synonyms: recorrido, ruta

2. heading, bearing