zumbi

zumbi (plural zumbis)

1. Alternative form of jumbie, a ghost or spirit
2. (uncommon) Alternative form of zombie

• Homophone: zumbir (Brazil)
• Hyphenation: zum‧bi

Borrowed from Kimbundu nzumbi (“ghost”, “spirit”) or Kimbundu nzambi (“god”).

zumbi m (plural zumbis)

1. (Brazil, historical) the leader of a quilombo (runaway slave settlement)
2. Zumbi dos Palmares

• (quilombo leader): zambi

Borrowed from English zombie, with spelling influenced by Etymology 1.

zumbi m or f by sense (plural zumbis)

1. (Brazil, fiction) zombie (the undead)
2. (Brazil, voodoo) zombie (person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces)
3. (Brazil, figurative) zombie (human being in a state of extreme mental exhaustion)

• (the undead): morto-vivo, zombie (Portugal)
• (person animated by unnatural forces): cazumbi
• (leader of a quilombo): zambi

• zumbinismo
• zumbizismo

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

zumbi

1. inflection of zumbir:
   1. first-person singular preterite indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative