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gjëmb = gjemb gjë'më nf 1 loud rumbling sound; boom, rumble 2 calamity, tragedy 3 news of death in the family 4 (Ethnog) wailing for the dead: keening 5 [Colloq Pej] something so ugly and bad as to be almost unbearable 6 plethora, huge amount gjëmë|ma'dh II§ adj 1 calamitous, catastrophic, disastrous; foreboding a disaster: sinister 2 stricken by woe, struck by disaster; wretched 3 loudly booming/rumbling 4 [Fig] very well-known, famous 5 [Pej] notorious, infamous III§ n 1 wretch 2 notorious person