trąba

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See also: trąbą, traba, and trabá

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Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *trǫba.

Pronunciation

 
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  • Rhymes: -ɔmba
  • Syllabification: trą‧ba

Noun

trąba f

  1. trunk of an elephant
  2. (childish) Augmentative of trąbka
  3. (colloquial or dialectal, Przemyśl) clumsy person
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:niezdara
  4. (meteorology) tornado, twister (violent wind in the form of a mobile, rapidly rotating, funnel cloud that has contacted the ground)
    Synonyms: cyklon, tornado, trąba powietrzna
  5. (Przemyśl) Synonym of twarz
    Jak ci dám w trąbę!I'll hit you in the face!

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Further reading

  • trąba in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • trąba in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Aleksander Saloni (1908) “trąba”, in “Lud rzeszowski”, in Materyały Antropologiczno-Archeologiczne i Etnograficzne (in Polish), volume 10, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 342