Maromba is a masculine noun from the Arabic term mabruma, which can mean bodybuilding exercise or stick used by acrobats to keep their balance when they're in the tightrope. It can also be a synonym for cleverness or trickery.
When this word is used in an informal context, it represents a group of physical exercises to strengthen the muscles. On many occasions this word is used by practitioners of bodybuilding and people who go to gyms and who want to be "healed" or "bombed". Some people associate maromba with the use of anabolic steroids.
As this word also describes the stick that gives balance to the acrobat on a tightrope, it is often used in the sense of classifying the attitude of an indecisive person who doesn't quite know what he wants, who doesn't go one way or the other, as if he were on a tightrope.
In a figurative sense, maromba can also mean a critical situation or difficult position, which requires effort on the part of someone.
Maromba can also describe a herd of oxen, or a wooden raft
, common in the Amazon area (especially when floods occur), used to transport livestock, plants and objects.A maromba is also the designation given to brick making machine.