barranco
See also: Barranco
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish barranco.
Noun
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 […]
- 1867, The Month: A Magazine and Review (page 344)
Portuguese
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barranco (dirt cliff)
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barranco (gully)
Noun
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
- barranca
- barrancoso
Spanish
Etymology
Of uncertain, maybe pre-Roman origin. Cognate of Catalan barranc, cf barra (“clay, mud”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /baˈranko/ [baˈrãŋ.ko]
- Rhymes: -anko
- Syllabification: ba‧rran‧co
Noun
barranco m (plural barrancos)
- gully, gulch, ravine, barranca
- Synonyms: cañada, cañón, quiebra, quebrada
- 1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 7, in The Dust of Conflict:
- 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.
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Derived terms
- barranquismo
- barranquista
- embarrancar
Further reading
- “barranco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014