tarumba

Arammba

Numeral

tarumba

1. 216; 6^3

Further reading

• Arammba language
• https://web.archive.org/web/20210427083639/https://ioling.org/booklets/iol-2015-indiv-sol.en-gb.pdf

Spanish

Etymology

Of imitative origin, similar to turulato (“stunned”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taˈɾumba/ [t̪aˈɾũm.ba]
• Rhymes: -umba
• Syllabification: ta‧rum‧ba

Adjective

tarumba m or f (masculine and feminine plural tarumbas)

1. (colloquial) KO, knocked out, dazed

   volver a alguien tarumba ― to confuse/daze someone

   • 2020 June 28, Rosa Montero, “Más brutos y no nacemos”, in El País‎^[1], Madrid, →ISSN:

     De eso se aprovechan esos malnacidos que atiborran la Red de falsedades o de noticias antiguas que hacen pasar por nuevas, lo cual está volviendo tarumba al personal.

     This is taken advantage of by those bastards who flood the net with falsehoods or with old news passing of as new, which confuses people.

Related terms

• tarambana

 

Further reading

• “tarumba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014