chumazo
Galician edit
Etymology edit
13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin plūmācium, from Latin plūma (“feather”). Cognate with Portuguese chumaço.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
chumazo m (plural chumazos)
- (dated) cushion; pillow
- 1278, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 36:
- meu leyto con una cóçedra e con dou chumaços e dous façeyroós e una colcha e un cobertor de çacotes
- my bed with a mattress and with two cushions and two pillows and a quilt and a coverlet
- bearings that support the axis of the traditional ox cart
Derived terms edit
References edit
- "chumaço" in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
- “chuma” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “chumazo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “chumazo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “chumazo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Spain) /t͡ʃuˈmaθo/ [t͡ʃuˈma.θo]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /t͡ʃuˈmaso/ [t͡ʃuˈma.so]
- (Spain) Rhymes: -aθo
- (Latin America) Rhymes: -aso
- Syllabification: chu‧ma‧zo
Noun edit
chumazo m (plural chumazos)
- (colloquial, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico) handful, bunch
- Synonym: manojo
- Se me cayó un chumazo de pelo de la cabeza.
- A handful of hair fell from my head.