quebrada

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish quebrada.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /keˈbɹɑːdə/

Noun

quebrada (plural quebradas)

  1. 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

Galician

Adjective

quebrada f sg

  1. feminine singular of quebrado

Participle

quebrada f sg

  1. feminine singular of quebrado

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /keˈbɾa.dɐ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /keˈbɾa.da/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /kɨˈbɾa.dɐ/ [kɨˈβɾa.ðɐ]

  • Hyphenation: que‧bra‧da

Adjective

quebrada f sg

  1. feminine singular of quebrado

Noun

quebrada f (plural quebradas)

  1. (Brazil, slang, often used in plural) neighborhood
    Synonym: banda
  2. (Brazil, slang) a place in a town or city where drugs are routinely consumed, often without knowledge of authorities

Participle

quebrada f sg

  1. feminine singular of quebrado

Further reading

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /keˈbɾada/ [keˈβ̞ɾa.ð̞a]
  • Rhymes: -ada
  • Syllabification: que‧bra‧da

Noun

quebrada f (plural quebradas)

  1. gorge, ravine
    Synonyms: cañada, cañón, barranco, quiebra

Adjective

quebrada f sg

  1. feminine singular of quebrado

Participle

quebrada f sg

  1. feminine singular of quebrado

Derived terms

Further reading

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