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trąba

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See also: trąbą, traba, and trabá

Polish

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Etymology

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    Inherited from Proto-Slavic *trǫba.

    Pronunciation

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    • Rhymes: -ɔmba
    • Syllabification: trą‧ba

    Noun

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    trąba f

    1. trunk of an elephant
    2. (childish) augmentative of trąbka
    3. (colloquial or dialectal, Przemyśl) clumsy person
      Synonyms: see Thesaurus:niezdara
    4. (meteorology) tornado, twister (violent wind in the form of a mobile, rapidly rotating, funnel cloud that has contacted the ground)
      Synonyms: cyklon, tornado, trąba powietrzna
    5. (Przemyśl) synonym of twarz
      Jak ci dám w trąbę!I'll hit you in the face!

    Declension

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    Further reading

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    • trąba”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
    • trąba”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN[2] (in Polish)
    • Aleksander Saloni (1908), “trąba”, in “Lud rzeszowski”, in Materyały Antropologiczno-Archeologiczne i Etnograficzne[3] (in Polish), volume 10, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 342