falleba
Catalan
Alternative forms
- falleva
Etymology
Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic خَلَّابَة (ḵallāba).
Pronunciation
Further reading
- “falleba” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic خَلَّابَة (ḵallāba).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /faˈʝeba/ [faˈʝe.β̞a]
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /faˈʎeba/ [faˈʎe.β̞a]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /faˈʃeba/ [faˈʃe.β̞a]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /faˈʒeba/ [faˈʒe.β̞a]
- Rhymes: -eba
- Syllabification: fa‧lle‧ba
Noun
falleba f (plural fallebas)
- catch (on door or window)
- 1998, Santiago Gamboa, Páginas de vuelta:
- Los que estaban en la tienda se asomaron por los gritos cuando la joven salió a las volandas envuelta en una toalla, pero la toalla se enredó en la falleba de la puerta y por eso la vieron correr empelota y al alojado detrás, haciendo gestos babosos y dando saltos de pingüino con el pantalón por las rodillas, el culo al aire y la vista clavada en las nalgas bamboleantes de la muchacha.
- Those who were in the store appeared upon hearing the shouts when the young woman rushed out wrapped in a towel, but the towel got tangled on the door catch and so they saw her running stark naked as well as the guest behind her, making many lewd gestures and hopping like a penguin with his pants around his ankles, his ass in the air, and his eyes locked on the girl's jiggling buttocks.
Further reading
- “falleba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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