bombilla

English
A bombilla

Etymology

Borrowed from Rioplatense Spanish bombilla (“straw”, literally “little pump”).

Pronunciation

Noun

bombilla (plural bombillas)

  1. A straw, often made of metal, ending in a filter and used for drinking maté.
    • 1856 July–October, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, volume IV, A. and C. Black, page 194:
      The maté is then filled with yerva, after the bombilla has been placed in position. The bombilla is literally “a little pump,” that is, a sucking tube, ending in a perforated bulb, which performs the office of the perforated diaphragm in our teapot spouts.

Asturian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /bomˈbiʎa/, [bõmˈbi.ʎa]
  • Rhymes: -iʎa
  • Hyphenation: bom‧bi‧lla

Noun

bombilla f (plural bombilles)

  1. light bulb

Spanish

Etymology

From bomba +‎ -illa.

Pronunciation
 
  • IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /bomˈbiʝa/ [bõmˈbi.ʝa]
  • IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /bomˈbiʎa/ [bõmˈbi.ʎa]
  • IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /bomˈbiʃa/ [bõmˈbi.ʃa]
  • IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /bomˈbiʒa/ [bõmˈbi.ʒa]

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  • (most of Spain and Latin America) Rhymes: -iʝa
  • (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) Rhymes: -iʎa
  • (Buenos Aires and environs) Rhymes: -iʃa
  • (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) Rhymes: -iʒa

  • Syllabification: bom‧bi‧lla

Noun

bombilla f (plural bombillas)

  1. Diminutive of bomba
  2. light bulb
    Synonyms: bombillo, (Chile) ampolleta, foco
  3. bombilla, drinking straw
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pajita
  4. (vulgar, colloquial) penis

Descendants
  • → Cebuano: bumbilya
  • → Tagalog: bombilya

Further reading
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