chumazo

Galician

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃuˈmaθo̝/, (western) /t͡ʃuˈmaso̝/

Noun

chumazo m (plural chumazos)

1. (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

2. bearings that support the axis of the traditional ox cart

Derived terms

• chumaceira
• chumazó

References

• "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

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /t͡ʃuˈmaθo/ [t͡ʃuˈma.θo]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /t͡ʃuˈmaso/ [t͡ʃuˈma.so]
• Rhymes: -aθo
• Rhymes: -aso
• Syllabification: chu‧ma‧zo

Noun

chumazo m (plural chumazos)

1. (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.

Further reading

• chumazo | Diccionario de americanismos | ASALE