bombilla

English

A bombilla

Etymology

Borrowed from Rioplatense Spanish bombilla (“straw”, literally “little pump”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /boʊmˈbiʃə/

Noun

bombilla (plural bombillas)

1. 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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bomˈbiʎa/, [bõmˈbi.ʎa]
• Rhymes: -iʎa
• Hyphenation: bom‧bi‧lla

Noun

bombilla f (plural bombilles)

1. light bulb

Spanish

Etymology

From bomba +‎ -illa.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /bomˈbiʝa/ [bõmˈbi.ʝa]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /bomˈbiʝa/ [bõmˈbi.ʝa]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /bomˈbiʎa/ [bõmˈbi.ʎa]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /bomˈbiʃa/ [bõmˈbi.ʃa]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /bomˈbiʒa/ [bõmˈbi.ʒa]

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• Rhymes: -iʝa

• Rhymes: -iʝa
• Rhymes: -iʎa
• Rhymes: -iʃa
• Rhymes: -iʒa

• Syllabification: bom‧bi‧lla

Noun

bombilla f (plural bombillas)

1. diminutive of bomba
2. light bulb

   Synonyms: bombillo, (Chile) ampolleta, foco

3. bombilla, drinking straw

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pajita

4. (vulgar, colloquial) penis

Descendants

• → Cebuano: bumbilya
• → Tagalog: bombilya

Further reading

• “bombilla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10