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say it: LUHM-bahr
lumbar is an adjective meaning "of or relating to or near the part of the back between the ribs and the hipbones". It is pronounced /ˈlʌmˌbɑɹ/ — LUHM-bahr. It carries one recorded sense.
of or relating to or near the part of the back between the ribs and the hipbones
“lumbar vertebrae”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for lumbar come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.