chumazo

Galician

13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin plūmācium, from Latin plūma (“feather”). Cognate with Portuguese chumaço.

chumazo m (plural chumazos)

(dated) cushion; pillow
Synonyms: almofada, coxín
- 1278, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 36:
  meu leyto con una cóçedra e con dou chumaços e dous façeyroós e una colcha e un cobertor de çacotes
  my bed with a mattress and with two cushions and two pillows and a quilt and a coverlet
bearings that support the axis of the traditional ox cart

"chumaço" in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “chuma”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “chumazo”, 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), “chumazo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “chumazo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

chumazo m (plural chumazos)

(colloquial, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico) handful, bunch
Synonym: manojo

Se me cayó un chumazo de pelo de la cabeza.
A handful of hair fell from my head.