trąba

See also: trąbą, traba, and trabá

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *trǫba.

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): /ˈtrɔm.ba/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔmba
  • Syllabification: trą‧ba

Noun

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

Declension of trąba
singular plural
nominative trąba trąby
genitive trąby trąb
dative trąbie trąbom
accusative trąbę trąby
instrumental trąbą trąbami
locative trąbie trąbach
vocative trąbo trąby

Derived terms

Further reading

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