tripa

Meaning

tripar

  1. (Portugal, colloquial) to trip (to experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs)
  2. (Portugal, colloquial) to lose one's temper, to trip (to become unreasonably upset, especially over something unimportant; to cause a scene or a disruption)

Concepts

heart as food

kidney as food

liver as food

lung as food

stomach as food

tongue as food

brain as food

Frequency

45k
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈtɾi.pɐ/
Etymology

In summary

Uncertain. Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese tripa, possibly from Arabic تَرْب (tarb, “bowels”), or perhaps connected to Old Norse torf (“turf, sod”) (see e.g. Middle Irish tarpán/torpán (“bunch of grapes; clod”)). See Spanish tripa and Italian trippa.

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