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See also: Barranco
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish barranco.
Noun
[edit]barranco (plural barrancos or barrancoes)
- A gully, gulch, or ravine.
- 1867, The Month: A Magazine and Review, page 344:
- We remounted at 3 p.m., and for three hours and a half we rode down a goat-track which resembled the depths of a barranco. It was the dry bed of a river, with rocks balanced upon each other […]
Portuguese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: bar‧ran‧co
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Noun
[edit]barranco 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
[edit]Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain; maybe of pre-Roman origin. Cognate with Catalan barranc; cf. barra (“clay, mud”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]barranco 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
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “barranco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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