chumbo

13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese [Term?], from Latin plumbum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃumbo̝/

chumbo m (uncountable)

1. lead (metal)
   • 1439, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros, Vigo: Galaxia, page 421:

     ordenaron que qual quer persona de fora parte ou da çibdade que trouxer estaño ou chonbo ou peltre ou cobre ou latón labrado ou por labrar ou orsella, que non veña con bufuylla, que page do que vender de cada XV mrs, duas brancas

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• chumbada

• “chumbo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “chumbo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “chumbo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “chumbo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “chumbo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Old Galician-Portuguese [Term?], from Latin plumbum. Doublet of the semi-learned prumo.

• Hyphenation: chum‧bo

chumbo m (plural chumbos)

1. (chemistry) lead (chemical element)
2. lead metal
3. shot, pellet
4. (dentistry) filling
5. (Portugal, education, colloquial) fail
6. (Portugal, colloquial) rejection

   Só se fala no recente chumbo da proposta de lei.

   All anyone talks about is the recent rejection of the bill.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:chumbo.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

chumbo

1. first-person singular present indicative of chumbar

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chumbo m (plural chumbos)

1. the prickly pear

   Synonym: higo chumbo

2. (Argentina, slang) a gun

   Synonyms: pistola, arma

• “chumbo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014