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tombo

tombo noun: a traditional sweet beer made from the bamboo palm.

Noun (1)

tombo (uncountable)

  1. (Namibia) A traditional sweet beer made from the bamboo palm.

Noun (2)

tombo (uncountable)

  1. (Hawaii) Albacore, longfin tuna (Thunnus alalunga)
    Synonyms:
    tombo ahi

Proper noun capitalized: Tombo

Tombo

  1. A barangay of Alangalang, Leyte, Philippines.

Synonyms of tombo

Origin of tombo

Borrowed from Ndonga otombo.

From Japanese トンボ (tonbo, “dragonfly”, a nickname for the albacore tuna).

Phrases with tombo

Questions about tombo

What does tombo mean?
Tombo means a traditional sweet beer made from the bamboo palm.
What part of speech is tombo?
Tombo can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near tombo in the dictionary

  1. tomblike
  2. Tomblin
  3. Tombling
  4. tombmate
  5. tombmates
  6. tombo
  7. tombo ahi
  8. tombola
  9. tombolas
  10. tombolo
  11. tombology

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tombo (page history and authors); Tombo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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