burbuja

Spanish

Etymology

Deverbal from *burbujar (“to bubble”), inherited from Vulgar Latin *bulbulliāre.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /buɾˈbuxa/ [buɾˈβ̞u.xa]
  • Rhymes: -uxa
  • Syllabification: bur‧bu‧ja

Noun

burbuja f (plural burbujas)

  1. bubble
  2. (economics) bubble
    • 2018 September 26, Jesús Ruiz Mantilla, Javier Gil, “Luces y sombras en Lavapiés”, in El País‎[1]:
      Denominar a un barrio como cool funciona como una estrategia discursiva y comercial para, de alguna manera, legitimar las burbujas inmobiliarias, la gentrificación y la turistificación.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  3. (social media) bubble

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “burbuja”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 696

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