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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈkʌmbə/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-cumber.wav [Southern-England]
Rhymes: -ʌmbə(ɹ) Etymology: From Middle English komber, kumbre (“distress; destruction”). According to the Oxford English Dictionary (1st edition, 1893; entry not updated yet), used early in the 14th century in the very scarcely attested “destruction” sense, but not common till the 16th century, and then at first chiefly Scots, where it is also spelt cummer. It states that the date, form, and sense, are all consistent with its being either a derivative of the verb (Etymology 1) or a shortened form of encomber, encumbir, encumbre (“trouble; misfortune; harm, ruin”), from Old French encombre, but that the sense “trouble, distress” strikingly coincides with German Kummer, Middle High German kumber, Middle Low German kummer, and Dutch kommer, additionally providing the following note: OF. had only combre fem. in the sense ‘heap of felled trees, stones, or the like’ (Godef.), corresponding to med.L. combra ‘a mound or mole in a river for the sake of catching fish’ (Du Cange), and akin to Merovingian L. cumbrus, pl. cumbri, combri ‘barriers of felled trees’ (Du C.), whence med.L. incumbrāre, F. encombrer, to Encumber. Cf. also Pg. combro ‘a heap of earth’. In the Meroving. L. cumbrus, Diez (s.v. Colmo saw a barbaric form, through *cumblus, of L. cumulus heap: so also Littré, Scheler, Brachet, s.v. Encombre. But the question of the actual origin of cumbrus, and its relation to the Ger. kummer and its family, is a difficult one, which has been much investigated and discussed: see Grimm, Kluge, Franck, Doornkaat-Koolmann. The Middle English Dictionary on the other hand does not provide an origin for the noun, only comparing the noun encumbre. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|komber}} Middle English komber, {{m|enm|kumbre|t=distress; destruction}} kumbre (“distress; destruction”), {{cog|sco|-}} Scots, {{m|sco|cummer}} cummer, {{m|enm|encomber}} encomber, {{m|enm|encumbir}} encumbir, {{m|enm|encumbre|t=trouble; misfortune; harm, ruin}} encumbre (“trouble; misfortune; harm, ruin”), {{der|en|fro|encombre}} Old French encombre, {{noncog|de|Kummer}} German Kummer, {{noncog|gmh|kumber}} Middle High German kumber, {{noncog|gml|kummer}} Middle Low German kummer, {{noncog|nl|kommer}} Dutch kommer, {{smallcaps|Encumber}} Encumber, {{m|enm|encumbre}} encumbre Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} cumber (uncountable)
  1. (obsolete) Trouble, distress. Tags: obsolete, uncountable
    Sense id: en-cumber-en-noun-MNoxgE3f
  2. Something that encumbers; a hindrance, a burden. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-cumber-en-noun-DKcJZ-dQ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 8 33 40 19
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: cumbrous
Etymology number: 2

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈkʌmbə/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-cumber.wav [Southern-England] Forms: cumbers [plural]
Rhymes: -ʌmbə(ɹ) Head templates: {{en-noun}} cumber (plural cumbers)
  1. (colloquial) Clipping of cucumber. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial Alternative form of: cucumber Synonyms: 'cumber
    Sense id: en-cumber-en-noun-en:cucumber Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 8 33 40 19
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈkʌmbə/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-cumber.wav [Southern-England] Forms: cumbers [present, singular, third-person], cumbering [participle, present], cumbered [participle, past], cumbered [past]
Rhymes: -ʌmbə(ɹ) Etymology: From Middle English combren, borrowed from the second element of Old French encombrer, ultimately from Proto-Celtic *kombereti (“to bring together”), from *kom- + *bereti (“to bear”). Cognate with German kümmern (“to take care of”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|combren}} Middle English combren, {{der|en|fro|encombrer}} Old French encombrer, {{der|en|cel-pro|*kombereti||to bring together}} Proto-Celtic *kombereti (“to bring together”), {{prefix|cel-pro|*kom-|*bereti|nocat=1|t2=to bear}} *kom- + *bereti (“to bear”), {{cog|de|kümmern||to take care of}} German kümmern (“to take care of”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} cumber (third-person singular simple present cumbers, present participle cumbering, simple past and past participle cumbered)
  1. (transitive, dated) To slow down; to hinder; to burden; to encumber. Tags: dated, transitive Synonyms: cumbre [archaic], encumber Derived forms: cumberer, cumberground, cumbersome, cumberworld Related terms: encumber, encumbrance Translations (to slow down, to hinder, to burden): затруднявам (zatrudnjavam) (Bulgarian), обременявам (obremenjavam) (Bulgarian), encombrer (French)
    Sense id: en-cumber-en-verb-zHs49h6U Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 8 33 40 19
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 290",
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          "ref": "1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson",
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      "code": "bg",
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      "word": "затруднявам"
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