tarabilla
Spanish
Etymology
Either from Vulgar Latin *terebella, a diminutive of Latin terebra (“gimlet”), or from a diminutive of trabs. Compare Portuguese taramela, Galician tarabela.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /taɾaˈbiʝa/ [t̪a.ɾaˈβ̞i.ʝa] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /taɾaˈbiʎa/ [t̪a.ɾaˈβ̞i.ʎa] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /taɾaˈbiʃa/ [t̪a.ɾaˈβ̞i.ʃa] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /taɾaˈbiʒa/ [t̪a.ɾaˈβ̞i.ʒa] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -iʝa (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- Rhymes: -iʎa (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -iʃa (Buenos Aires and environs)
- Rhymes: -iʒa (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Syllabification: ta‧ra‧bi‧lla
Noun
tarabilla f (plural tarabillas)
Further reading
- “tarabilla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025