quebrado

English

Noun

quebrado (plural quebrados)

1. Alternative form of quebrada (“ravine or valley in Latin America”).

Galician

Adjective

quebrado (feminine quebrada, masculine plural quebrados, feminine plural quebradas)

1. broken

Participle

quebrado (feminine quebrada, masculine plural quebrados, feminine plural quebradas)

1. past participle of quebrar

Portuguese

Etymology

From quebrar + -ado.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /keˈbɾa.du/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /keˈbɾa.du/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /keˈbɾa.do/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɨˈbɾa.du/ [kɨˈβɾa.ðu]

• Hyphenation: que‧bra‧do

Adjective

quebrado (feminine quebrada, masculine plural quebrados, feminine plural quebradas, comparable, comparative mais quebrado, superlative o mais quebrado or quebradíssimo)

1. in separate pieces; fragmented; broken
2. (of an object) not working properly; broken
3. (of a body part) having the bone in pieces; fractured; broken
4. having no money; bankrupt; broken; broke

Participle

quebrado (feminine quebrada, masculine plural quebrados, feminine plural quebradas)

1. past participle of quebrar

Further reading

• “quebrado”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “quebrado”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2026
• “quebrado” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “quebrado”, in Dicionário Infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “quebrado”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “quebrado”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /keˈbɾado/ [keˈβ̞ɾa.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: que‧bra‧do

Adjective

quebrado (feminine quebrada, masculine plural quebrados, feminine plural quebradas)

1. bankrupt; broke
2. broken
3. uneven; coarse; rough
4. (cockfighting) capable of both attack and defense; spirited; skilled at dodging (cf. quiebro, quebradillo)

Noun

quebrado m (plural quebrados)

1. número quebrado: fraction
2. verso quebrado: a line of poetry shorter than the surrounding or natural meter of the poem (cf. hemistich)
3. hernia

   Synonym: hernia

Derived terms

• quebrado de compás

Participle

quebrado (feminine quebrada, masculine plural quebrados, feminine plural quebradas)

1. past participle of quebrar

Further reading

• “quebrado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025