trompa

Catalan

Pronunciation

Noun

trompa f (plural trompes)

  1. French horn
  2. trunk (of animal)
  3. (anatomy) tube
  4. (architecture) squinch
  5. trompe

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʁɔ̃.pa/

Verb

trompa

  1. third-person singular past historic of tromper

Galician

A Spanish drawing of a trompa

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese tronpa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria). Onomatopoeic or alternatively from a Germanic language. Compare English trumpet and drum

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɾompa/

Noun

trompa f (plural trompas)

  1. (music) horn, trump, trumpet
  2. (music) jaw harp, Jew's harp
    Synonym: berimbau
  3. trunk (of an elephant)
  4. (anatomy) tube (especially the Fallopian tube)
  5. (humorous) nose
    Synonyms: nafro, napia
  6. (figuratively) drunkenness
    Synonym: borracheira
  7. spinning top
    Synonym: buxaina

References

  • trompa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
  • tronpa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • trompa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  • trompa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • trompa” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɔm̥pa

Noun

trompa

  1. indefinite genitive plural of tromp

Portuguese

Noun

trompa f (plural trompas)

  1. (music instrument) horn (any of several types of musical wind instruments)

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɾom.pa/

Etymology 1

From Frankish *trumpa.

Noun

trompa f (plural trompas)

  1. snout (long, projecting nose, mouth and jaw of a beast)
  2. trunk (of an elephant)
  3. (music) horn
  4. proboscis
  5. (anatomy) tube (especially the Fallopian tube)
    trompa de Falopio
    Fallopian tube
  6. booze-up; drinking sesh
See also

Etymology 2

From a vesre form of patrón.

Noun

trompa m (plural trompas)

  1. (vesre) boss, protector
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