buraco

buraco

Galician

Alternative forms

• burato, bureco, furaco, furado

Etymology

Uncertain. From Old Galician and Old Portuguese buraco (13th century), perhaps from Latin forāmen (“aperture, opening”) or rather from a local derivative of Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“to pierce”) + the suffix -aco, from a pre-Lattin suffix -akko-.[1]

Compare Portuguese buraco, Asturian buracu, furacu. The form furado derives from Latin forātus; compare Catalan forat, Spanish horado, Asturian furáu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buˈɾako̝/

Noun

buraco m (plural buracos)

1. hole

   Synonyms: buxeiro, furado

2. pit

Derived terms

• buraco negro
• esfuracar

References

• “buraco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “buraco” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “buraco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “buraco” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “buraco” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

1. Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983–1991), “horadar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buˈɾa.ku/

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• Rhymes: -aku
• Hyphenation: bu‧ra‧co

Etymology 1

Uncertain.

Possibly from Old Portuguese furaco, through Vulgar Latin *foraculum from Latin forāmen (“aperture, opening”). Compare Galician buraco, furaco, furado, Asturian furacu, buracu, Ladino burako, Leonese buraco, and Spanish buraco; cf. also Catalan forat, Spanish horado.

Or, possibly borrowed from Old High German boron (“to bore, drill”).[1]

It could instead be cognate with Hindi सुराख (surākh, “eyelet”), Persian سوراخ‎ (surâx, “orifice”), which are ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱouH-r-o-.[2]

Noun

buraco m (plural buracos)

1. pit; hole (hollow spot in a surface)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:buraco

2. burrow (a tunnel or hole dug by a creature)

   Synonyms: toca, túnel

3. (figurative, depreciative) a very filthy, crude or precarious house

   Synonyms: esconderijo, toca, ninho de ratos

4. (billiards, pool, snooker) pocket (cavity with a sack at each corner and one centered on each side of a pool or snooker table)

   Synonym: caçapa

5. hole (an opening in a solid)

   Synonyms: abertura, fenda, orifício

6. (figurative) gap (a vacant time)

   Synonyms: janela, lacuna

7. (figurative) an emotional gap caused by someone’s death or absence

   Synonym: vazio

8. (slang) a difficult situation financially
9. (card games) canasta, especially its Brazilian variant

   Synonyms: biriba, canastra

Derived terms

• buraco-branco
• buraco-cinza
• buraco-negro
• sair do buraco
• tapa-buracos
• tapar buracos

Related terms

• buracar
• esburacado
• esburacamento
• esburacar
• esburaquento

See also

• furacar
• furado

Verb

buraco

1. first-person singular present indicative of buracar

References

1. “buraco” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
2. Sebastião Rodolfo Dalgado (1988): Portuguese Vocables in Asiatic Languages: From the Portuguese Original of Monsignor Sebastião Rodolfo Dalgado, Volume 1, p. 59