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bomba

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O lançamento aéreo da bomba atômica em Hiroshima teve implicações devastadoras.

The airdrop of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima had devastating implications.

(transitive) to pump (to use a pump to move a liquid)
(colloquial, intransitive) to rock (to greatly impact, positively)
(Portugal, colloquial, intransitive, transitive) to be very loud
(colloquial, intransitive, transitive) to be very popular
(Brazil, colloquial, intransitive, transitive) to fail (to receive non-passing grades academically)
(Brazil, transitive) to perform industrial silicone injections on transgender women

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbõ.bɐ/

Borrowed from Italian

bomba

In summary

Borrowed from Italian bomba, from Latin bombus (“a booming sound”), from Ancient Greek βόμβος (bómbos, “booming, humming, buzzing”). Sense 3 is a semantic loan from English, which explains the apparent discrepancy with sense 4. Doublet of bombo.