trompa

Ultimately of imitative origin. Probably from a Germanic source (compare Frankish *trumba, Old High German trumpa) via Italian tromba.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈtɾom.pə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈtɾom.pa]

trompa f (plural trompes)

1. French horn
2. horn (e.g. for hunting)
3. trunk (of an animal)
4. (entomology) proboscis (of an insect)
5. (anatomy) tube, duct
6. (architecture) squinch
7. trompe
8. (colloquial) drunkenness

• trompar

trompa m or f by sense (plural trompes)

1. (music) horn player
2. dunce, simpleton
3. (colloquial) drunkard

• “trompa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

• IPA^(key): /tʁɔ̃.pa/

trompa

1. third-person singular past historic of tromper

 

From Old Galician-Portuguese tronpa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria). Onomatopoeic or alternatively from a Germanic language. Compare English trumpet and drum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾompa/

trompa f (plural trompas)

1. (music) horn, trump, trumpet
   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 561:

     Et começou o torneo a creçer tãto, et a seer o acapelamento tã grande, et a uolta et os braados et os alaridos et os sõos dos cornos et das tronpas tã grandes et tã esquiuos que ome nõ se podía oýr

     And the tournament began to grow so much, and the carnage was so large, and the din and the shouts and the yells and the sound of the horns and of the trumpets so big and harsh that a man couldn't heard himself

2. (music) jaw harp, Jew's harp

   Synonym: berimbau

3. trunk (of an elephant)
4. (anatomy) tube (especially the Fallopian tube)
5. (humorous) nose

   Synonyms: nafro, napia

6. (figurative) drunkenness

   Synonym: borracheira

7. spinning top

   Synonym: buxaina

• trompeta

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “trompa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “tronpa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “trompa”, 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), “trompa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “trompa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• Rhymes: -ɔm̥pa

trompa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative trompaði, supine trompað)

1. (card games) to trump, to play a trump card

trompa

1. indefinite genitive plural of tromp

• Hyphenation: trom‧pa

trompa f (plural trompas)

1. (music instrument) horn (any of several types of musical wind instruments)

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾompa/ [ˈt̪ɾõm.pa]
• Rhymes: -ompa
• Syllabification: trom‧pa

Borrowed from a Germanic language, from Frankish *trumpa or Old High German trumpa, trumba, of imitative origin, similar to English drum.

trompa f (plural trompas)

1. snout (long, projecting nose, mouth and jaw of a beast)
2. trunk (of an elephant)
3. (music) horn
   • 1905, Benito Pérez Galdós, Aita Tettauen:

     He usado y abusado de la trompa, sin cuidarme de atenuar la ronquera de su sonido, y ahora, en esta transformación de mis ideas y en esta repugnancia de la épica militar, me he quedado sin instrumento, pues aunque soplara la trompa, no sacaría de ella más que lamentos desacordes.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

4. proboscis
5. (anatomy) tube (especially the Fallopian tube)

   trompa de Falopio ― Fallopian tube

6. booze-up; drinking sesh

   Ayer me pillé una trompa de no te menees.

   Yesterday I drank myself stupid.

• hocico
• morro

From a vesre form of patrón.

trompa m (plural trompas)

1. (vesre) boss, protector

• “trompa”, 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