The story
- Hungarian · derived fromgomba“mushroom, fungus”
- Neapolitan · borrowed fromcumpà
- English todayGoomba
Likely derived either from goombah (“friend”), in turn from Neapolitan cumpà, or from Hungarian gomba (“mushroom, fungus”). . For the voicing of stops compare gabagool.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.