breca

Unknown. Perhaps from Arabic قِلَّة البَارَك (qilla(t) al-bārak, “bad luck”).

• IPA^(key):

breca f (plural brecas)

1. cramp (painful contraction of a muscle)

   Synonym: cambra

Unknown. Perhaps from a substrate language.

• IPA^(key):

breca f (plural brecas)

1. pandora (Pagellus erythrinus)

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “breca”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “breca”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “breca”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• Rhymes: -ɛkɐ
• Hyphenation: bre‧ca

Unknown. Possibly from Arabic قِلَّة البَارَك (qilla(t) al-bārak, “bad luck”).

breca f (plural brecas)

1. cramp (painful contraction of a muscle)

   Synonym: cãibra

2. (obsolete) a disease that makes the hair of goats fall off

• com a breca
• da breca
• levar a breca

breca f (plural brecas)

1. (rare) grey mullet (Mugil cephalus, a tropical and subtropical fish)

   Synonyms: tainha, mugem

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

breca

1. inflection of brecar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

breca f (plural brecas)

1. common pandora

• “breca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10