barranco

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish barranco.

Noun

barranco (plural barrancos or barrancoes)

  1. 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

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: bar‧ran‧co
barranco (dirt cliff)
barranco (gully)

Noun

barranco m (plural barrancos)

  1. a dirt cliff, especially one at the edge of a river or road
    Synonyms: barranca, ribanceira
  2. gully (trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow)
    Synonym: (Brazil) voçoroca

Spanish

Etymology

Uncertain; maybe of pre-Roman origin. Cognate with Catalan barranc; cf. barra (clay, mud).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /baˈranko/
  • Rhymes: -anko
  • Syllabification: ba‧rran‧co

Noun

barranco m (plural barrancos)

  1. gully, gulch, ravine, barranca
    Synonyms: cañada, cañón, quiebra, quebrada
    • 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.

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