goombah

(ˈgumbɑ)

n. a buddy; a trusted friend. (Also a term of address. Ultimately from Italian.) He’s my goombah. I can trust him.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Gobinet	-	Irish
Glenda	GLEN-də	Welsh, English
Naamah	NAY-ə-mə (English), nah-ah-MAH (Jewish)	Biblical, Hebrew
Mcleod	[mək'laʊd]
Vlado	-	Croatian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Bulgarian, Macedonian
Sigiheri	-	Ancient Germanic