barranco

See also: Barranco

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish barranco.

Noun

barranco (plural barrancos or barrancoes)

1. A gully, gulch, or ravine.
   • 1867, The Month: A Magazine and Review, page 344:

     We remounted at 3 p.m., and for three hours and a half we rode down a goat-track which resembled the depths of a barranco. It was the dry bed of a river, with rocks balanced upon each other […]

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /baˈʁɐ̃.ku/ [baˈhɐ̃.ku]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /baˈʁɐ̃.ku/ [baˈhɐ̃.ku]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /baˈʁɐ̃.ku/ [baˈχɐ̃.ku]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /baˈʁɐ̃.ko/ [baˈhɐ̃.ko]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐˈʁɐ̃.ku/

• Hyphenation: bar‧ran‧co

barranco (dirt cliff)

barranco (gully)

Noun

barranco m (plural barrancos)

1. a dirt cliff, especially one at the edge of a river or road

   Synonyms: barranca, ribanceira

2. gully (trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow)

   Synonym: (Brazil) voçoroca

Related terms

• barranca
• barrancoso

Spanish

Etymology

Uncertain; maybe of pre-Roman origin. Cognate with Catalan barranc; cf. barra (“clay, mud”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈranko/ [baˈrãŋ.ko]
• Rhymes: -anko
• Syllabification: ba‧rran‧co

Noun

barranco m (plural barrancos)

1. gully, gulch, ravine, barranca

   Synonyms: cañada, cañón, quiebra, quebrada

   • 1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 7, in The Dust of Conflict‎^[1]:

     A little fire burned in the hollow of the dusty barranco, a clear red fire of the kind that gives little light and makes no smoke, and its pale glow showed but feebly against the rock behind.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

• barranquismo
• barranquista
• embarrancar

 

Further reading

• “barranco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014