parruma
Galician
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editEtymology
editFrom an older *parrua or *parrũa (compare the derived term parroeira / parrugueira / parromeira). Further etymology unknown.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editparruma f (plural parrumas)
- soot; ash
- Synonym: feluxe
- 1911, F. Potel Pardal, Costumes da Terra, page 52:
- Agardan xa na Pont'a Valga os rapaces polas mozas; uns con naranxas na man cheas de parromo do forno, outros con fariña triga, da que as nais tiñan gardada pra facer filloas, metida no peto e con xiringas feitas dun cacho de cana i un pau con estopa na punta os máis deles.
- The boys awaits for the girls at the bridge over the Valga river: some of them with oranges in hand, full of ashes of the oven; others with wheat flour -of the one that the mothers had for making crepes- in the pocket; and most of them with squirt guns made with a piece of cane and a twig with tow at its tip
- smoke
- Synonym: fume
- (by extension) fog; drizzle, haze
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “parruma”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “parrume”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “parruma”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega