quebrada
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Spanish quebrada.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
quebrada (plural quebradas)
- A ravine or valley in Latin America.
- 2003, Joan Koss-Chioino, Thomas L. Leatherman, Christine Greenway, Medical Pluralism in the Andes, page 209:
- Later, friends told me of the dangers of absorbing fright illness and mal aire from the quebrada, especially from eggs and other curing paraphernalia discarded there.
Alternative forms[edit]
Galician[edit]
Adjective[edit]
quebrada f sg
Participle[edit]
quebrada f sg
Portuguese[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: que‧bra‧da
Adjective[edit]
quebrada f sg
Noun[edit]
quebrada f (plural quebradas)
- (Brazil, slang, often used in plural) neighborhood
- Synonym: banda
- (Brazil, slang) a place in a town or city where drugs are routinely consumed, often without knowledge of authorities
Participle[edit]
quebrada f sg
Further reading[edit]
- “quebrada” in iDicionário Aulete.
- “quebrada” in Dicionário inFormal.
- “quebrada” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “quebrada” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- “quebrada” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
- “quebrada” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
quebrada f (plural quebradas)
Adjective[edit]
quebrada f sg
Participle[edit]
quebrada f sg
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “quebrada”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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