trufa

See also: trufá and trufă

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Occitan trufa. Doublet of tòfona.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [ˈtɾu.fə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈtɾu.fa]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

trufa f (plural trufes)

1. (Northern) truffle

   Synonym: tòfona

2. chocolate truffle
3. (archaic) joke

   Synonym: burla

Derived terms

• trufa cuita
• trufada
• trufador
• trufar
• trumfa

Further reading

• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “trufa”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
• “trufa”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “trufa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026

Interlingua

Noun

trufa (plural trufas)

1. truffle

Piedmontese

Alternative forms

• trüfa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtryfa/

Noun

trufa f (plural trufe)

1. scam, swindle

Related terms

• trufé

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾu.fɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾu.fɐ/

Noun

trufa f (plural trufas)

1. truffle (fungus)
2. truffle (confection)

Related terms

• trufar
• trufeira
• trufeiro

Further reading

• “trufa”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “trufa” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “trufa”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾufa/ [ˈt̪ɾu.fa]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ufa
• Syllabification: tru‧fa

Etymology 1

trufa

From Old Occitan trufa, from Vulgar Latin *tufera, from Latin tuber.

Noun

trufa f (plural trufas)

1. truffle (tuber)

Etymology 2

Verb

trufa

1. inflection of trufar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “trufa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Anagrams

• fruta