timbo

From Tupian.

timbo (plural timbos)

1. (possibly obsolete) The pacara tree, Enterolobium contortisiliquum.
   • 1889, John Merle Coulter, M.S. Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Joseph Charles Arthur, Botanical Gazette, page 226:

     Among the handsomest trees which I have met is the "Timbo" (Enterolobium timbosa), which grows sometimes to the height of [...]. Half a dozen other species of Enterolobium, all inferior to the Timbo, grow in the Paraguayan forests.

   • 1894, New York Academy of Sciences, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, section on Plants Collected in Paraguay, page 216:

     The host is sometimes called the Timbo, but it is not the true Timbo, which is Enterolobium contortisiliquum.

   • 1916, Alberto B. Martínez, Baedeker of the Argentine Republic:

     At a short distance from the banks of the river Paraguay commences the forest exhibiting its red and white quebrachos, carob-trees, timbos, etcetera. The soil is very rich and in the clearings there are excellent pastures' ...

• Tombi

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *timo.

• IPA^(key): /timo/, [tĩˈᵐbo]
• Rhymes: -o

timbo

1. vapor, smoke

timbo

1. to smoke

• Britton, A. Scott (2005), “timbo”, in Guaraní Concise Dictionary (overall work in English), New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 108
• Canese, Natalia Krivoshein de; Alcaraz, Feliciano Acosta (2016), “timbo”, in Ñe’ẽryru [Dictionary] (overall work in Spanish), Asunción: Instituto Superior de Lenguas, →ISBN, page 109, column 1
• Assis, Cecy Fernandes de (2000), “Timbo”, in Ñe’ẽ Ryru Avañe’ẽ [Dictionary Guarani ] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo, page 146, column 2

• jimbo, timba

Borrowed from Kimbundu jimbo.

• Rhymes: -ĩbu
• Hyphenation: tim‧bo

timbo m (plural timbos)

1. (Angola, Mozambique) aardvark (Orycteropus afer, a mammal)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:orictéropo