parruma

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Galician

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /paˈruma/
  • Rhymes: -uma
  • Hyphenation: pa‧rru‧ma

Noun

parruma f (plural parrumas)

  1. soot; ash
    Synonym: feluxe
    • 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.
      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
  2. smoke
    Synonym: fume
  3. (by extension) fog; drizzle, haze
    Synonyms: brétema, orballo, froallo, poalla

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