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bombilla

/bɒmˈbiː(j)ə/

bombilla noun: a straw, often made of metal, ending in a filter and used for drinking maté.

Noun

bombilla (plural bombillas)

  1. A straw, often made of metal, ending in a filter and used for drinking maté.
    • The maté is then filled with yerva, after the bombilla has been placed in position. The bombilla is literally “a little pump,” that is, a sucking tube, ending in a perforated bulb, which performs the office of the perforated diaphragm in our teapot spouts.1856 July–October, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, volume IV, A. and C. Black, page 194

Forms of bombilla

pluralbombillas

Origin of bombilla

Borrowed from Rioplatense Spanish bombilla (“straw”, literally “little pump”).

Questions about bombilla

What does bombilla mean?
Bombilla means a straw, often made of metal, ending in a filter and used for drinking maté.
What part of speech is bombilla?
Bombilla is a noun.
How do you pronounce bombilla?
Bombilla is pronounced /bɒmˈbiː(j)ə/.
What is the plural of bombilla?
The plural of bombilla is bombillas.

Words near bombilla in the dictionary

  1. bombilated
  2. bombilates
  3. bombilating
  4. bombilation
  5. bombilations
  6. bombilla
  7. bombillas
  8. bombils
  9. bombinate
  10. bombinated
  11. bombinates

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