sombrero

Borrowed from Spanish sombrero (“hat”), from sombra (“shadow, shade”) + -ero, literally, "shade-maker". The drink was named after the hat.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /səmˈbɹɛɹ.oʊ/, /sɑmˈbɹɛɹ.oʊ/, /soʊmˈbɹɛɹ.oʊ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛɹəʊ
• Hyphenation: som‧bre‧ro

sombrero (plural sombreros)

1. A kind of hat with a high conical or cylindrical crown and a saucer-shaped brim, highly embroidered, made of plush felt.
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 135:

     Beatrice looked up and saw a man standing before her; the huge sombrero overshadowed his face, but the light of the lamp shone on a large and glittering knife in his girdle.

   • 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 42:

     `Hey listen Pancho, take your hands off me or I'll stick your sombrero up your Khyber.'

2. A mixed drink with coffee liqueur and cream.
3. (bowling) A series of four consecutive strikes.

• sumbrero

Borrowed from Spanish sombrero.

• IPA^(key): /somˈbɾeɾo/ [somˈbɾe.ɾo]
• Hyphenation: som‧bre‧ro

sombréro (Basahan spelling ᜐᜓᜋ᜔ᜊ᜔ᜍᜒᜍᜓ)

1. hat

   Synonyms: kopya, kalo

Derived from Spanish sombrero.

• IPA^(key): [ˈsombrɛro]
• Hyphenation: som‧b‧re‧ro

sombrero n

1. sombrero (hat)

• “sombrero”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “sombrero”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “sombrero”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Borrowed from Spanish sombrero.

• IPA^(key): /sɔmˈbreː.roː/

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• Hyphenation: som‧bre‧ro
• Rhymes: -eːroː

sombrero m (plural sombrero's, diminutive sombrerootje n)

1. sombrero (hat)

From Spanish.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsombre(ː)ro/, [ˈs̠o̞m.bre̞(ː)ro̞]
• Rhymes: -ombrero
• Syllabification^(key): somb‧re‧ro
• Hyphenation^(key): somb‧re‧ro

sombrero

1. sombrero (hat)
2. sombrero (drink)

• “sombrero”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

Borrowed from Spanish sombrero.

• IPA^(key): /sɔm.bʁe.ʁo/
• Hyphenation: som‧bre‧ro

sombrero m (plural sombreros)

1. sombrero

• “sombrero”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from Spanish sombrero (“hat”), from sombra (“shadow, shade”) +‎ -ero.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈsombrɛroː], [ˈsombreːroː]
• Hyphenation: somb‧re‧ro
• Rhymes: -roː

sombrero (plural sombrerók)

1. sombrero (hat with a high conical or cylindrical crown and a saucer-shaped brim)

From Spanish sombrero.

• IPA^(key): /somˈbrɛ.ro/
• Rhymes: -ɛro
• Hyphenation: som‧brè‧ro

sombrero m (plural sombreri)

1. sombrero

• smorberò

Inherited from Old Spanish sonbrero (“hat”).

sombrero m

1. hat (headgear)

   Synonym: chapeo

   • 1992, Aki Yerushalayim‎^[2], numbers 45-48, page 32:

     Con bastón y con sombrero,
     Ya fuera Shabbat o Pascua,
     A eznoga siempre el primero,
     Antes que nadie llegaba.

     With cane and hat,
     'Twas already Shabbat or Passover,
     Always first at synagogue,
     Before anybody else was arriving.

Borrowed from Spanish sombrero.

• IPA^(key): /sɔmˈbrɛ.rɔ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛrɔ
• Syllabification: som‧bre‧ro

sombrero n

1. sombrero (hat)

or

Indeclinable.

• sombrero in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Spanish sombrero or French sombrero.

sombrero n (plural sombrero)

1. sombrero

Derived from Spanish sombrero.

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɔmbrerɔ]

sombrero n (genitive singular sombrera, nominative plural sombrerá, genitive plural sombrer, declension pattern of mesto)

1. sombrero (hat)

• “sombrero”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

From sombra +‎ -ero.

• IPA^(key): /somˈbɾeɾo/ [sõmˈbɾe.ɾo]

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• Rhymes: -eɾo
• Syllabification: som‧bre‧ro

sombrero m (plural sombreros)

1. hat
2. butterfly pea (Clitorea ternatea)

• “sombrero”, 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

sombrero c

1. a sombrero (hat)

The -s plural forms are not in the dictionaries from the Swedish Academy, but seem to be more common in practice.

• sombrero in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• sombrero in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• sombrero in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• sumbrero
• sumblero

Borrowed from Spanish sombrero (“hat”). Doublet of sambalilo.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /somˈbɾeɾo/ [somˈbɾɛː.ɾo]
• Rhymes: -eɾo
• Syllabification: som‧bre‧ro

sombrero (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜋ᜔ᜊ᜔ᜇᜒᜇᜓ)

1. hat

   Synonyms: sambalilo, kalo, kupya

• “sombrero”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Borrowed from Spanish sombrero.

sombrero

1. hat

• Pequeño diccionario ilustrado: Náhuatl de los municipios de Zacatlán, Tepetzintla y Ahuacatlán‎^[3] (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., 2006, page 19