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it's fascinating to me that the Bolivians call them paraguas -- i learned to call them parasols, which directly confirms your description since para sol literally means "stop sun". lol
Paraguas is of course also Para Agua - stop water.
I'm more used to parasol being used for the larger variants commonly seen at the beach, but often they can be somewhat interchangeable in function - what stops water is also likely reasonable at stopping sun
i learned to call those tapasols -- cover sun.
spanish can be so silly sometimes. lol
It certainly is one of the languages of all time