baraque

See also: baraqué

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Valencian barraca, probably from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.ʁak/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

baraque f (plural baraques)

1. shack, hut
2. stall, stand
3. (colloquial) pad, crib (house)
4. (informal) musclehead, muscleman, man built like a brick shithouse, bulky man (large and muscular man)

   Synonym: armoire à glace

Derived terms

• baraque à frites
• baraqué
• casser la baraque

Descendants

• → English: barrack
• → German: Baracke
  • → Serbo-Croatian: baraka

Further reading

• “baraque”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.