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tulumba

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
tu-lum-ba
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A dessert in Turkey, the Middle East and eastern Europe, consisting of fried batter soaked in syrup, similar to a churro.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

Etymology

From modern Turkish tulumba, from Ottoman Turkish طولومبه (tulumba), from Italian tromba. Doublet of trump and tromp.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: tulumba, طولومبه, tromba

Usage

Inflected Forms

tulumbas (plural)

Questions

What does tulumba mean?
A dessert in Turkey, the Middle East and eastern Europe, consisting of fried batter soaked in syrup, similar to a churro.
Where does tulumba come from?
It is traced to Turkish.

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