chumazo

Galician

Etymology

13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin plūmācium, from Latin plūma (“feather”). Cognate with Portuguese chumaço.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃuˈmaθo̝/, (western) /t͡ʃuˈmaso̝/

Noun

chumazo m (plural chumazos)

  1. (dated) cushion; pillow
    Synonyms: almofada, coxín
    • 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
  2. bearings that support the axis of the traditional ox cart

Derived terms

References
  • "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

Pronunciation
  • 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

chumazo m (plural chumazos)

  1. (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.

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