parruma

parruma

Galician

Alternative forms

• parroma, parromo

Etymology

From an older *parrua or *parrũa (compare the derived term parroeira / parrugueira / parromeira). Further etymology unknown.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.ˈru.ma̝/

Noun

parruma f (plural parrumas)

1. soot; ash
   • 1911, F. Potel Pardal, Costumes da Terra, page 52:

     Agardan xa na Pont'a Valga os rapaces polas mozas; uns con naranxas na man cheas de parromo do forno, outros con fariña triga, da que as nais tiñan gardada pra facer filloas, metida no peto e con xiringas feitas dun cacho de cana i un pau con estopa na punta os máis deles.

2. `*:: The boys awaits for the girls at the bridge over the Valga river: some of them with oranges in hand, full of ashes of the oven; others with wheat flour -of the one that the mothers had for making crepes- in the pocket; and most of them with squirt guns made with a piece of cane and a twig with tow at its tip

   Synonym: feluxe

3. smoke

   Synonym: fume

4. (by extension) fog; drizzle

   Synonyms: brétema, orballo, froallo, poalla

Derived terms

• parrumeiro
• parrumeira

References

• “parruma” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “parruma” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.