# tromba
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈtɾom.bə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈtɾom.ba]
* Rhymes: -omba
* Hyphenation: trom‧ba

### Noun

tromba f (plural trombes)
* whirlwind, waterspout
* tornado

### Further reading

* “tromba” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Galician
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɾomba/ [ˈt̪ɾom.bɐ]
* Rhymes: -omba
* Hyphenation: trom‧ba

### Noun

tromba f (plural trombas)
* thunderstorm
    Synonyms: torboada, torbón, treboada

### Further reading

* “tromba”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtrom.ba/
* Rhymes: -omba
* Hyphenation: tróm‧ba

### Etymology 1

From a Germanic source (Frankish *trumba, Old High German trumpa, Old Norse trumba), all imitative.

#### Noun

tromba f (plural trombe)
* trumpet
* horn
* (military) bugler
* well (in a building)
* shaft

##### Derived terms

* trombetta
* tromba delle scale
* tromba dell'ascensore
* tromba di Eustachio
* trombatore

##### Descendants

* → Middle French: trombe
** French: trombe
*** → English: tromp
*** → German: Trombe
**** → Swedish: tromb
* → Hijazi Arabic: طُرُمْبَة (ṭurumba)
* → Spanish: tromba
* → Ottoman Turkish: طولومبه (tulumba), طولمبه (tulumba), طلومبه (tulumba), طلمبه (tulumba), تلومبه (tulumba), تلومبا (tulumba), طلومبا (tulumba), طولومبا (tulumba)
** Turkish: tulumba
** → Albanian: tullumbë
** → Arabic: طُلُمْبَة (ṭulumba)
** → Armenian: թուլումպա (tʻulumpa)
** → Azerbaijani: tulumba (archaic)
** → Georgian: თულუმბა (tulumba) — Chveneburi
** → Persian: تلمبه (tolombe)
** → Romanian: tulumbă

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

tromba
* third-person singular present indicative of trombare

## Maltese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian tromba.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtrɔm.ba/

### Noun

tromba f (plural trombi or tronob)
* binoculars
* trumpet

#### Related terms

* trombetta (trumbetta)
* trombettier (trumbettier)
* trombettun (trumbettun)
* trombjatura
* ttrombja
* ttrumbettja (ttrumbetta)

## Piedmontese
### Alternative forms

* trumba

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtrumba/

### Noun

tromba f (plural trombe)
* trumpet

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɾõ.bɐ/
* Rhymes: (most dialects) -õbɐ, (Southern Brazil) -õba
* Hyphenation: trom‧ba

### Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese tromba, trompa, from Frankish *trumpa, from an imitative Germanic word.

#### Noun

tromba f (plural trombas)
* trunk (extended nasal organ of an elephant)
* (colloquial, by extension) face
* (colloquial) a sullen facial expression
    estar de trombas ― to be in a bad mood
* stinger (pointed portion of an insect or arachnid)
* Clipping of tromba d'água (“waterspout”).
* (obsolete) a trumpet or bugle

##### Synonyms

* (nose of an elephant): probóscide
* (sullen facial expression): carranca, cara fechada
* (trumpet or bugle): trombeta

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

tromba
* inflection of trombar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian tromba (“trumpet”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɾomba/ [ˈt̪ɾõm.ba]
* Rhymes: -omba
* Syllabification: trom‧ba

### Noun

tromba f (plural trombas)
* whirlwind, tornado
    Synonym: torbellino
* waterspout
    Synonym: tifón

#### Derived terms

* en tromba
* tromba de agua

### Further reading

* “tromba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Vilamovian
### Etymology

From Old French trompette.

### Noun

tromba f
* trumpet