different between rumbo vs jumbo

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

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d???mb??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d???mbo?/
• Rhymes: -?mb??
• Hyphenation: jum?bo

Etymology 1

From Jumbo (1860–1885), the name given to a large African elephant from East Africa that was purchased in 1882 by American showman P. T. Barnum (1810–1891) for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Compare Swahili jambo (“matter, thing”) and jumbe (“chief, headman”).

Adjective

jumbo (not comparable)

1. Especially large or powerful.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

jumbo (plural jumbos)

1. An especially large or powerful person, animal, or thing.
2. (engineering) A platform-mounted machine for drilling rock.

   Synonym: drilling jumbo

Translations

See also

• Jumbomania

Etymology 2

From (mumbo) jumbo.

Noun

jumbo (plural jumbos)

1. (paganism, historical) Short for mumbo jumbo (“a deity or other supernatural being worshipped by certain West African peoples; an idol representing such a being”).

Further reading

• drilling jumbo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Jumbo (elephant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• jumbo (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?jumbo/, [?jumbo?]
• Rhymes: -umbo
• Syllabification: jum?bo

Etymology 1

After the circus elephant of the same name, as elephants are considered slow. A similar expression is found in Swedish jumbo. For the origin of the name, see English jumbo.

Noun

jumbo (not comparable)

1. (informal) last, last one, especially in a competition

Declension

Synonyms

• viimeinen

Compounds

• jumbofinaali
• jumbosija

Etymology 2

From English jumbo, from the same origin as above.

Noun

jumbo

1. jumbo jet
2. Short for porausjumbo (drilling jumbo).
3. (as modifier) very large

Declension

Synonyms

• (jumbojet): jumbojetti

Compounds

• jumbojetti
• jumbokoko
• jumbokokoinen

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English jumbo ("An especially large or powerful person, animal or thing").

Noun

jumbo m (definite singular jumboen, indefinite plural jumboer, definite plural jumboene)

1. a person or team that finishes last (in competitions)

Derived terms

• jumboplass

References

• “jumbo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “jumbo” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English jumbo ("An especially large or powerful person, animal or thing").

Noun

jumbo m (definite singular jumboen, indefinite plural jumboar, definite plural jumboane)

1. a person or team that finishes last (in competitions)

Derived terms

• jumboplass

References

• “jumbo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.