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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Rioplatense Spanish bombilla (“straw”, literally “little pump”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]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.
Asturian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bombilla f (plural bombilles)
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
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- Syllabification: bom‧bi‧lla
Noun
[edit]bombilla f (plural bombillas)
- diminutive of bomba
- light bulb
- bombilla, drinking straw
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pajita
- (vulgar, colloquial) penis
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “bombilla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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