tarumba
Arammba
Numeral
tarumba
- 216; 6^3
Further reading
- Arammba language
- https://web.archive.org/web/20210427083639/https://ioling.org/booklets/iol-2015-indiv-sol.en-gb.pdf
Spanish
Etymology
Of imitative origin, similar to turulato (“stunned”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /taˈɾumba/ [t̪aˈɾũm.ba]
- Rhymes: -umba
- Syllabification: ta‧rum‧ba
Adjective
tarumba (plural tarumbas)
- (colloquial) KO, knocked out, dazed
- volver a alguien tarumba ― to confuse/daze someone
- 2020 June 28, Rosa Montero, “Más brutos y no nacemos”, in El País, Madrid, ISSN 1134-6582:
- De eso se aprovechan esos malnacidos que atiborran la Red de falsedades o de noticias antiguas que hacen pasar por nuevas, lo cual está volviendo tarumba al personal.
- This is taken advantage of by those bastards who flood the net with falsehoods or with old news passing of as new, which confuses people.
Related terms
- tarambana
Further reading
- “tarumba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014