escoba

See also: escobá

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin scōpa.

Noun

escoba f (plural escobas)

1. broom

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “escoba”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin scōpa.

Noun

escoba f (plural escobes)

1. broom

   Synonyms: barrederu, barredoriu

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /esˈkoba/ [esˈko.β̞a]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -oba
• Syllabification: es‧co‧ba

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish escoba, from Latin scōpa. Compare Italian scopa.

Noun

escoba f (plural escobas)

1. broom (domestic utensil)

   Synonym: (Argentina, Chile) escobillón

   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 10:

     Todo Brujo puede volar, ya sea transformándose previamente en un animal que tenga alas, ya cabalgando en una escoba y pronunciando las consabidas palabras de «Sin Dios ni Santa María».

     Every Witch can fly, be it by transforming themself beforehand into an animal with wings, or by riding on a broom and uttering the well-known words of "Without God or Mary".

2. Spanish broom, broom (bush of the genus retama)

   Synonym: retama

Derived terms

• coche escoba
• escabazo
• escoba amarga
• escoba nueva barre bien
• escobajo
• escobar
• escobilla
• no vender una escoba

 

Related terms

• escobar
• escobillón

 

Descendants

• → Cebuano: eskuba
• → Magdalena Peñasco Mixtec: skova

Etymology 2

Verb

escoba

1. inflection of escobar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “escoba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28
• escoba on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

Anagrams

• acebos