chumbo

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13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese , from Latin plumbum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃumbo̝/

chumbo m (uncountable)

1. lead (metal)
   • 1439, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros, Vigo: Galaxia, page 421:

     ordenaron que qual quer persona de fora parte ou da çibdade que trouxer estaño ou chonbo ou peltre ou cobre ou latón labrado ou por labrar ou orsella, que non veña con bufuylla, que page do que vender de cada XV mrs, duas brancas

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• chumbada

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “chumbo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “chumbo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “chumbo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “chumbo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “chumbo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Old Galician-Portuguese , from Latin plumbum. Doublet of the semi-learned prumo.

• Hyphenation: chum‧bo

chumbo m (plural chumbos)

1. (chemistry) lead (chemical element)
2. lead metal
3. shot, pellet
4. (dentistry) filling
5. (Portugal, education, colloquial) fail
6. (Portugal, colloquial) rejection

   Só se fala no recente chumbo da proposta de lei.

   All anyone talks about is the recent rejection of the bill.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:chumbo.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

chumbo

1. first-person singular present indicative of chumbar

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chumbo m (plural chumbos)

1. the prickly pear

   Synonym: higo chumbo

2. (Argentina, slang) a gun

   Synonyms: pistola, arma

• “chumbo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16