broma

From Ancient Greek βρῶμα (brôma, “food”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹəʊmə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹoʊmə/
• Rhymes: -əʊmə

broma

1. A light form of prepared cocoa, or the drink made from it.
2. (medicine, obsolete) Aliment; food.

• bromatotoxism

• “broma”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Bomar, RAMBO, Rambo, rambo

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈbɾo.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈbɾo.ma]

From Ancient Greek βρῶμα (brôma, “food, shipworm, cavity”). Semantic connection is uncertain.

broma f (plural bromes)

1. joke, practical joke

   Synonym: burla

   Va fer una broma i tothom va riure. ― He (or she) played a joke and everyone laughed.

2. shipworm (Teredo navalis)

   Synonym: corc marí

• en broma, de broma (“joking, kidding, as a joke”)

Inherited from Latin brūma.

broma f (plural bromes)

1. fog or mist

   Synonym: boira

   Sempre hi ha broma a aquesta zona. ― There's always fog in this area.

• in the sense of fog or mist, boira is more usual than .

broma

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

• “broma”, 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

• IPA^(key): /bʁɔ.ma/
• Homophones: bromas, bromât

broma

1. third-person singular past historic of bromer

broma m

1. genitive singular of broim (“fart”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “broma”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

broma m

1. genitive singular of broms

Borrowed from Norwegian brom.

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈproːma/

brōma

1. bromine

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Borrowed from Ancient Greek βρῶμα (brôma, “food, shipworm, cavity”). Semantic connection is uncertain. Compare Sicilian bromu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɾoma/ [ˈbɾo.ma]

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• Rhymes: -oma
• Syllabification: bro‧ma

broma f (plural bromas)

1. joke, prank, practical joke

   Synonyms: burla, chiste, diablura, guasa, mofa, travesura

   Hizo una broma y todos se rieron.

   He made a joke and everyone laughed.

2. banter (plural)
3. (zoology) shipworm

   Synonym: teredo

• “broma”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• broma on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es
• broma (molusco) on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

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