columpiar

Meaning

1. to swing
2. (colloquial, pronominal) blunder, mess up, screw up (make an embarrassing mistake)

Concepts

swing

rock

🪨

sweep

balance

vibrate

swing out

Synonyms

balancear

columpiarse

embromar

🤣

mecer

🪨

oscilar

tremolar

vibrar

voltear

agitarse en el aire

flamear al viento

balancearse

Translations

schaukeln

balancer

altalenare

balancejar-se

bressar

gronxar-se

gronxar

schwingen

engronsar

gronxolar

agrunsar

bressolar

schwenken

👋

engrunsar

gronsar

Hyphenated as

co‧lum‧piar

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kolumˈpjaɾ/

Etymology

From Old Leonese columbiar, from Ancient Greek κολυμβάω (kolumbáō, “to dive, plunge”) (with semantic shift "dive" > "swing"), from κόλυμβος (kólumbos, “little grebe”), a bird known for its diving skills.