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