tumbaga

Borrowed from Spanish tumbaga, from Malay tembaga, from Sanskrit ताम्रक (tāmraka). Doublet of tombak.

tumbaga (uncountable)

1. A gold-copper alloy used by the pre-Columbian cultures of Central America to make religious objects.

• IPA^(key): /tumˈba.ɡa/
• Rhymes: -aɡa
• Hyphenation: tum‧bà‧ga

tumbaga f (uncountable)

1. tumbaga

• tumbaga in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

tumbaga f (plural tumbagas)

1. tumbaga

• “tumbaga”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Borrowed from Malay tembaga, from Sanskrit उडुम्बर (uḍumbara, “copper”) or Sanskrit ताम्रक (tāmraka, “copper”).

• IPA^(key): /tumˈbaɡa/, [tʊmˈba.ɣɐ]
• Hyphenation: tum‧ba‧ga

tumbaga (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜋ᜔ᜊᜄ)

1. gold-copper alloy

• bronse

tumbaga (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜋ᜔ᜊᜄ)

1. made of gold-copper alloy

• “tumbaga”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2016) Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 300

tumbaga

1. brass, bronze
2. copper

tumbaga

1. brass