frullare

Italian

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /frulˈla.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: frul‧là‧re

Verb

frullàre (first-person singular present frùllo, first-person singular past historic frullài, past participle frullàto, auxiliary avére or èssere)

  1. (transitive) to blend, to purée, to liquidize
  2. (intransitive) to flutter (of birds) [auxiliary avere][2]
  3. (intransitive, also figurative) to whirl (of spinning tops, wheels, etc.) [auxiliary avere][2]
  4. (intransitive, figurative, chiefly with a location around the head) to be thought (of thoughts, ideas, etc. often implying they are silly) [auxiliary essere][2]
    Che ti è frullato per la testa?!
    What were you thinking?!
    (literally, “What was whirling through your head?!”)

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ frullare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Nicola Zingarelli (2016), lo Zingarelli 2017, Vocabolario della lingua italiana (in Italian), Zanichelli, →ISBN, page 944

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