faramalla

Galician

Alternative forms

• zaramalla

Etymology

From Medieval Latin farmalio (“deceit, fraud”), probably itself from *malfario: compare Italian malfare, French malfaire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [faɾaˈmaʎɐ]

Noun

faramalla f (plural faramallas)

1. 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

2. mess, tangle; trick, deceit

Derived terms

• faramalleiro

References

• 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

Spanish

Noun

faramalla f (plural faramallas)

1. claptrap; tosh
2. 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.

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Further reading

• “faramalla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28