barranco
See also: Barranco
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Spanish barranco.
Noun
editbarranco (plural barrancos or barrancoes)
Portuguese
editPronunciation
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- Hyphenation: bar‧ran‧co
Noun
editbarranco m (plural barrancos)
- a dirt cliff, especially one at the edge of a river or road
- Synonyms: barranca, ribanceira
- gully (trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow)
- Synonym: (Brazil) voçoroca
Related terms
editSpanish
editEtymology
editUncertain; maybe of pre-Roman origin. Cognate with Catalan barranc; cf. barra (“clay, mud”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbarranco m (plural barrancos)
- gully, gulch, ravine, barranca
- 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 7, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
- A little fire burned in the hollow of the dusty barranco, a clear red fire of the kind that gives little light and makes no smoke, and its pale glow showed but feebly against the rock behind.
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “barranco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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