breca
See also: breča
Galician edit
Etymology 1 edit
Unknown. Perhaps from Arabic قِلَّة البَارَك (qilla(t) al-bārak, “bad luck”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
breca f (plural brecas)
Etymology 2 edit
Unknown. Perhaps from a substrate language.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
breca f (plural brecas)
References edit
- “breca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “breca” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “breca” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ɛkɐ
- Hyphenation: bre‧ca
Etymology 1 edit
Unknown. Possibly from Arabic قِلَّة البَارَك (qilla(t) al-bārak, “bad luck”).
Noun edit
breca f (plural brecas)
- cramp (painful contraction of a muscle)
- Synonym: cãibra
- (obsolete) a disease that makes the hair of goats fall off
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
breca f (plural brecas)
- (rare) grey mullet (Mugil cephalus, a tropical and subtropical fish)
Etymology 3 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
breca
- inflection of brecar:
Spanish edit
Noun edit
breca f (plural brecas)
Further reading edit
- “breca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014