Colombo

See also: colombo

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəˈlɒm.bəʊ/, /kəˈlʌm.bəʊ/, (city also) /ˈkɒl.əm.bəʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ʌmbəʊ

Etymology 1

From Portuguese Colombo, modification (under the influence of the Italian surname, see below) of Sinhalese කොලොන් තොට (kolon toṭa, literally “port on the river Kelani”). Other theories derive the name from Veddah; see w:Colombo § Etymology for more.

Proper noun

Colombo

1. The commercial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka.
   • 2022, Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Sort Of Books, page 266:

     From this height, Colombo does not look like a mess. It sleeps in shadows decorated with trees and lights.

Translations

capital of Sri Lanka

• Albanian: Kolombo
• Amharic: ኮሎምቦ (kolombo)
• Arabic: كُولُومْبُو f (kolombō)
• Armenian: Կոլոմբո (hy) (Kolombo)
• Assamese: কলম্বো (kolombü)
• Azerbaijani: Kolombo (az)
• Belarusian: Кало́мба m (Kalómba)
• Bengali: কলম্বো (bn) (kolombō)
• Bulgarian: Коло́мбо m (Kolómbo)
• Burmese: ကိုလံဘို (kuilambhui)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 科倫坡 / 科伦坡 (fo¹ leon⁴ bo¹)

  Mandarin: 科倫坡 / 科伦坡 (zh) (Kēlúnpō), 可倫坡 / 可伦坡 (Kělúnpō)

• Czech: Kolombo (cs) n
• Danish: Colombo n
• Dhivehi: ކޮޅުނބު (koḷuᵐbu)
• Dutch: Colombo n
• Esperanto: Kolombo (eo)
• Estonian: Colombo (et)
• Finnish: Colombo
• French: Colombo (fr) f
• Georgian: კოლომბო (ka) (ḳolombo)
• German: Colombo (de) n
• Greek: Κολόμπο (el) n (Kolómpo)
• Gujarati: કોલંબો (kolambo)
• Hebrew: קוֹלוֹמְבּוֹ f (kolómbo)
• Hindi: कोलंबो m (kolambo)
• Hungarian: Colombo (hu)
• Icelandic: Kólombó
• Indonesian: Kolombo
• Irish: Colombo
• Italian: Colombo (it) f
• Japanese: コロンボ (ja) (Koronbo)
• Kannada: ಕೊಲಂಬೊ (kolambo)
• Kazakh: Коломбо (Kolombo)
• Khmer: កូឡុំបូ (km) (koulombou)
• Korean: 콜롬보 (Kollombo)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Colombo (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Коломбо (Kolombo)
• Latvian: Kolombo
• Lithuanian: Kolombas m
• Macedonian: Коломбо (Kolombo)
• Malay: Colombo
• Malayalam: കൊളംബോ (koḷambō)
• Marathi: कोलंबो (kolambo)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Коломбо (Kolombo)

• Nepali: कोलम्बो (ne) (kolambo)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Colombo (no)

  Nynorsk: Colombo

• Odia: କଲୋମ୍ବୋ (kalombo)
• Pashto: کولمبو f (kolāmbó)
• Persian: کلمبو (kolombo)
• Polish: Kolombo (pl) n
• Portuguese: Colombo (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਕੋਲੰਬੋ (kolambo)
• Romanian: Colombo (ro)
• Russian: Коло́мбо m (Kolómbo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Коломбо m

  Roman: Kolombo m

• Sinhalese: කොළඹ (koḷaᵐba)
• Slovak: Kolombo n
• Slovene: Kolombo m
• Spanish: Colombo (es) m
• Swedish: Colombo (sv) n
• Tagalog: Colombo
• Tajik: Коломбо (Kolombo)
• Tamil: கொழும்பு (ta) (koḻumpu)
• Tatar: Коломбо (Qolombo)
• Telugu: కొలంబో (kolambō)
• Thai: โคลัมโบ (koo-lam-boo)
• Tibetan: ཁོ་ལུམ་པོ (kho lum po)
• Turkmen: Kolombo
• Ukrainian: Коло́мбо m (Kolómbo)
• Urdu: کولمبو m (kolambo)
• Uyghur: كولومبو (kolombo)
• Uzbek: Kolombo
• Vietnamese: Cô-lôm-bô
• Yiddish: קאָלאָמבאָ n (kolombo)

Etymology 2

From Italian Colombo, from colombo (“pigeon, dove”).

Proper noun

Colombo

1. A surname from Italian.

French

Proper noun

Colombo m

1. Colombo

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈlom.bo/
• Rhymes: -ombo
• Hyphenation: Co‧lóm‧bo

Proper noun

Colombo m

1. Columbus

Proper noun

Colombo f

1. Colombo (the commercial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /koˈlõ.bu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /koˈlõ.bu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /koˈlõ.bo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kuˈlõ.bu/

Etymology 1

Proper noun

Colombo f

1. Colombo (the commercial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka)

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Colombo m

1. Columbus

Proper noun

Colombo

1. A town and municipality of Paraná, Brazil

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈlombo/ [koˈlõm.bo]
• Rhymes: -ombo
• Syllabification: Co‧lom‧bo

Proper noun

Colombo m

1. Colombo (the commercial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka)