arrombar

• arrumar, arrumbar

Obscure. Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *rūmaz (“roomy”).[1]

• IPA^(key): /aromˈβaɾ/, /arumˈβaɾ/

arrombar (first-person singular present arrombo, first-person singular preterite arrombei, past participle arrombado)

1. (intransitive) to take up room
2. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to cope or manage oneself placement
3. (transitive) to set something aside for making room
4. (transitive) to take away something
5. (transitive) to order, to tidy up
6. (informal, transitive) to impregnate

• (to take up room): avultar
• (to put aside): apartar
• (to order): arranxar
• (to impregnate): preñar

• “arrombar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “arrumbar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “arrombar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “arrumbar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “arrombar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• “arrombar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From a- +‎ rombo (“hole”) +‎ -ar. First attested in c. 15th century.[1] It is not related to Galician arrombar.

• Hyphenation: ar‧rom‧bar

arrombar (first-person singular present arrombo, first-person singular preterite arrombei, past participle arrombado)

1. (transitive) to batter (to break down a door or other barrier)
2. (transitive) to break in (to enter a place by force)
3. (transitive) to force (to forcibly open a door, lock etc.)
4. (transitive) to make a hole in
5. (transitive, figurative, vulgar) to humiliate
6. (transitive, vulgar, colloquial) to have anal sex
7. (transitive, vulgar, colloquial) to defeat

• “arrombar” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “arrombar” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “arrombar” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.