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Meaning of parruma | Babel Free

Noun feminine CEFR B1
paˈruma

Definitions

  1. soot; ash
    feminine
  2. smoke
    feminine
  3. fog; drizzle, haze
    broadly, feminine
  4. Equivalent to 'Haze': Very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility.

Equivalents

English fog Haze Soot

Examples

“Agardan xa na Pont'a Valga os rapaces polas mozas; uns con naranxas na man cheas de parromo do forno, outros con fariña triga, da que as nais tiñan gardada pra facer filloas, metida no peto e con xiringas feitas dun cacho de cana i un pau con estopa na punta os máis deles.”

The boys awaits for the girls at the bridge over the Valga river: some of them with oranges in hand, full of ashes of the oven; others with wheat flour -of the one that the mothers had for making crepes- in the pocket; and most of them with squirt guns made with a piece of cane and a twig with tow at its tip

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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