pollaboba
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˌpoʝaˈboba/ [ˌpo.ʝaˈβ̞o.β̞a] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
- IPA(key): /ˌpoʎaˈboba/ [ˌpo.ʎaˈβ̞o.β̞a] (rustic northern Spain, northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /ˌpoʃaˈboba/ [ˌpo.ʃaˈβ̞o.β̞a] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /ˌpoʒaˈboba/ [ˌpo.ʒaˈβ̞o.β̞a] (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)
- IPA(key): /ˌpojaˈboba/ [ˌpo.jaˈβ̞o.β̞a] (northern Mexico, Yucatán, Central America (except Panama))
- Rhymes: -oba
- Syllabification: po‧lla‧bo‧ba
Noun
[edit]pollaboba m or f by sense (plural pollabobas)
- (Canary Islands) A stupid person.
Adjective
[edit]pollaboba m or f (masculine and feminine plural pollabobas)
- (Canary Islands) (of a person) stupid
Further reading
[edit]- “pollaboba”, in Collins Spanish Dictionary.
- “pollaboba”, in Diccionario Básico de Canarismos [Basic Dictionary of Canarianisms] (in Spanish), Canarian Academy of the Language [Spanish: Academia Canaria de La Lengua], 2010
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