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ribombar

Portuguese, verb/ʁi.bõˈba(ʁ)/

ribombar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to boom (to make a loud, resonant sound)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does ribombar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to boom (to make a loud, resonant sound)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Forms of ribombar

  • ribombo first-person present singular
  • ribombei first-person preterite singular
  • ribombado participle past
  • ribombares infinitive second-person singular
  • ribombarmos first-person infinitive plural
  • ribombardes infinitive plural second-person
  • ribombarem infinitive plural third-person
  • ribombando gerund
  • ribombados masculine participle past
  • ribombada feminine participle past
  • ribombadas feminine participle past
  • ribombas indicative present second-person
  • ribomba indicative present singular
  • ribombamos first-person indicative plural
  • ribombais indicative plural present
  • ribombam indicative plural present
  • ribombava first-person imperfect indicative
  • ribombavas imperfect indicative second-person

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce ribombar?

  • Brazil /ʁi.bõˈba(ʁ)/
  • Brazil [hi.bõˈba(h)]
  • /ʁi.bõˈba(ɾ)/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to ribombar

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is ribombar in Portuguese?

ribombar appears about once in every 28 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).