bombil
English
Etymology
Marathi [Term?]
Noun
bombil (plural bombils)
- The lizardfish (Harpadon nehereus), the Bombay duck, or bummalo, native to the Arabian Sea.
- 2007 January 7, Paul Gray, “Gangsta Raj”, in New York Times:
- Those who plunge into the novel soon find themselves thrashing in a sea of words and sentences (“On Maganchand Road the thela-wallahs already had their fruit piled high, and the fishsellers were laying out bangda and bombil and paaplet on their slabs”) unencumbered by italics or explication.
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Cebuano
Etymology
From New Latin Bougainvillea, after Louis Antoine de Bougainville French admiral + -a.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: bom‧bil
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