bombil

English

Etymology

Marathi [Term?]

Noun

bombil (plural bombils)

1. The lizardfish (), the Bombay duck, or bummalo, native to the Arabian Sea.
   • 2007 January 7, Paul Gray, “Gangsta Raj”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     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

Noun

bombil

1. Any member of the genus Bougainvillea.