English

Proper noun

Zumbi

1. The famous leader of the Quilombo dos Palmares, located in Brazil, South America.

Derived terms

• Zumbi Day

Portuguese

Noun

zumbi m f (plural zumbis)

1. (Brazil, fiction) zombie (the undead)
2. (Brazil, voodoo) zombie (person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces)
3. (Brazil, figuratively) zombie (human being in a state of extreme mental exhaustion)
4. (Brazil, historical) the leader of a quilombo (runaway slave settlement)

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• zumbinismo
• zumbizismo

Etymology 2

Verb

zumbi

1. first-person singular (eu) preterite indicative of zumbir
2. second-person plural (vós, sometimes used with vocês) affirmative imperative of zumbir