rumia
Spanish, noun
rumia is spelled R-U-M-I-A (5 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written Spanish, the 130,910th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rumia is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “pondering; rumination” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of rumiar. With an accent, rumiá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of rumiar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de rumiar”.
What does rumia mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininepondering; rumination
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo imperative of rumiar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acción o efecto de rumiar. 2. Acto de reflexionar, meditar, ponderar sobre algo.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of rumia
- rumias plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is rumia in Spanish?
rumia appears about once in every 12 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).