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tambo.

dairy farm

5 characters2 syllables approx.Español language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈtambo/[ˈt̪ãm.bo]

  1. dairy farm

    Paraguay · Rioplatense · masculine

  2. milking parlour

    Paraguay · Rioplatense · masculine

  3. milk churn

    El-Salvador · Guatemala · Mexico · masculine

  4. barrel

    El-Salvador · Mexico · masculine

  5. prison

    Guatemala · Honduras · Mexico · Nicaragua · masculine

  6. inn

    masculine

  7. trading post

    Peru · masculine
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Quechua tampu. Semantic shift to mean rural outpost which came to be associated with dairy farms, and thus with dairy.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.