faramalla
Galician
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Medieval Latin farmalio (“deceit, fraud”), probably itself from *malfario:[1] compare Italian malfare, French malfaire.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]faramalla f (plural faramallas)
- claptrap
- Synonym: verborrea
- c. 1780, anonymous author, Cincuenta décimas contra Cernadas:
- Diras que todo esto he Palla;
por que te ues conuencido
ben sei que o que esta vencido
di, que todo he faramalla:- You'll say that all of this is straw [unnecessary]
because you see yourself convinced
I know well that the defeated one
says that everything is claptrap
- You'll say that all of this is straw [unnecessary]
- mess, tangle; trick, deceit
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “faramalla”, 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, editor (2006–2013), “zaramalla”, 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), “faramalla”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “faramalla”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Spanish
[edit]Noun
[edit]faramalla f (plural faramallas)
- claptrap; tosh
- boasting; showing off
- 2017 August 11, “Abre Bátiz la puerta a sus memorias”, in Frontera.info[1]:
- Dice no ser rico en propiedades, pero sí en reconocimiento, porque es músico, no artista, y un artista hace faramallas, él se dedica a llevar su música al corazón de los demás convirtiéndolo en un eslabón del rock.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
[edit]- “faramalla”, 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