bombilla
English
A bombilla
Etymology
Borrowed from Rioplatense Spanish bombilla (“straw”, literally “little pump”).
Pronunciation
- (Rioplatense) IPA(key): /boʊmˈbiʃə/
Noun
bombilla (plural bombillas)
- 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.
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Asturian
Noun
bombilla f (plural bombilles)
- light bulb
Spanish
Etymology
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]
- (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)
- Diminutive of bomba
- light bulb
- Synonyms: bombillo, (Chile) ampolleta, foco
- bombilla, drinking straw
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pajita
Descendants
- → Cebuano: bumbilya
- → Tagalog: bumbilya
Further reading
- “bombilla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014