chumbo

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese chumbo, from Latin plumbum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃumbo/ [ˈt͡ʃum.bʊ]
• Rhymes: -umbo
• Hyphenation: chum‧bo

chumbo m (uncountable)

1. lead (metal)

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “chumbo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “chumbo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “chumbo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• “chumbo”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “chumbo”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2025

• chonbo, chũbo, chunbo

Inherited from Latin plumbum.

chumbo m (uncountable)

1. lead (metal)

   Synonym: plomo

   • 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)

• Galician: chumbo
• Portuguese: chumbo

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “ch+bo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “ch[oõuũ[mn]?bo]”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Cunha, Antônio Geraldo da (2020–2025), “chumbo”, in Vocabulário histórico-cronológico do Português Medieval [Historical and chronological vocabullary of Medieval Portuguese] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa

• Rhymes: -ũbu
• Hyphenation: chum‧bo

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese chumbo, from Latin plumbum. Doublet of prumo.

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, informal) rejection (of a vote or proposal)

   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

• “chumbo”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “chumbo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• “chumbo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃumbo/ [ˈt͡ʃũm.bo]
• Rhymes: -umbo
• Syllabification: chum‧bo

chumbo m (plural chumbos)

1. the prickly pear

   Synonym: higo chumbo

2. (Bolivia, Rioplatense, slang) a pistol

   Synonyms: pistola, arma

• “chumbo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024