# trompa
## Catalan
### Etymology

Ultimately of imitative origin. Probably from a Germanic source (compare Frankish *trumba, Old High German trumpa) via Italian tromba.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈtɾom.pə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈtɾom.pa]

### Noun

trompa f (plural trompes)
* French horn
* horn (e.g. for hunting)
* trunk (of an animal)
* (entomology) proboscis (of an insect)
* (anatomy) tube, duct
* (architecture) squinch
* trompe
* (colloquial) drunkenness

#### Derived terms

* a trompons
* entrompar
* trompada
* trompera
* trompeta

#### Related terms

* trompar

### Noun

trompa m or f by sense (plural trompes)
* (music) horn player
* dunce, simpleton
* (colloquial) drunkard

### Further reading

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

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tʁɔ̃.pa/

### Verb

trompa
* third-person singular past historic of tromper

## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese tronpa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria). Onomatopoeic or alternatively from a Germanic language. Compare English trumpet and drum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɾompa/

### Noun

trompa f (plural trompas)
* (music) horn, trump, trumpet
** 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 561:Et começou o torneo a creçer tãto, et a seer o acapelamento tã grande, et a uolta et os braados et os alaridos et os sõos dos cornos et das tronpas tã grandes et tã esquiuos que ome nõ se podía oýrAnd the tournament began to grow so much, and the carnage was so large, and the din and the shouts and the yells and the sound of the horns and of the trumpets so big and harsh that a man couldn't heard himself
* (music) jaw harp, Jew's harp
    Synonym: berimbau
* trunk (of an elephant)
* (anatomy) tube (especially the Fallopian tube)
* (humorous) nose
    Synonyms: nafro, napia
* (figurative) drunkenness
    Synonym: borracheira
* spinning top
    Synonym: buxaina

#### Related terms

* trompeta

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “trompa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “tronpa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “trompa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “trompa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “trompa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Icelandic
### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -ɔm̥pa

### Etymology 1
#### Verb

trompa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative trompaði, supine trompað)
* (card games) to trump, to play a trump card

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2
#### Noun

trompa
* indefinite genitive plural of tromp

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɾõ.pɐ/
* Hyphenation: trom‧pa

### Noun

trompa f (plural trompas)
* (music instrument) horn (any of several types of musical wind instruments)

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɾompa/ [ˈt̪ɾõm.pa]
* Rhymes: -ompa
* Syllabification: trom‧pa

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from a Germanic language, from Frankish *trumpa or Old High German trumpa, trumba, of imitative origin, similar to English drum.

#### Noun

trompa f (plural trompas)
* snout (long, projecting nose, mouth and jaw of a beast)
* trunk (of an elephant)
* (music) horn
** 1905, Benito Pérez Galdós, Aita Tettauen:He usado y abusado de la trompa, sin cuidarme de atenuar la ronquera de su sonido, y ahora, en esta transformación de mis ideas y en esta repugnancia de la épica militar, me he quedado sin instrumento, pues aunque soplara la trompa, no sacaría de ella más que lamentos desacordes.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* proboscis
* (anatomy) tube (especially the Fallopian tube)
    trompa de Falopio ― Fallopian tube
* booze-up; drinking sesh
    Ayer me pillé una trompa de no te menees.Yesterday I drank myself stupid.

##### Derived terms

* atar las trompas
* ligarse las trompas
* trompa de Eustaquio
* trompa de Falopio
* trompa de los Alpes

##### Related terms

* trompeta
* trompita

##### See also

* hocico
* morro

### Etymology 2

From a vesre form of patrón.

#### Noun

trompa m (plural trompas)
* (vesre) boss, protector

### Further reading

* “trompa”, 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