barraco
See also: Barraco
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /baˈʁa.ku/ [baˈha.ku]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /baˈʁa.ku/ [baˈχa.ku]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /baˈʁa.ko/ [baˈha.ko]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /bɐˈʁa.ku/
- Rhymes: -aku
- Hyphenation: bar‧ra‧co
Etymology 1
From barraca (“tent, hut”).
Noun
barraco m (plural barracos)
- shack (crude hut)
- 1979 May 18, Maria Helena Dutra, “Um atleta exemplar entre a fome e o recorde”, in Placar, number 473, São Paulo: Abril, page 44:
- São mais de duas horas de ônibus, para se chegar a Paciência, na zona rural do Rio, onde fica o barraco de Arcanjo.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (Brazil, slang) intense verbal conflict (maybe edging toward physical conflict), specially between two persons or sides and concerning personal matters, in the presence of more people
Descendants
- → Kadiwéu: balaacogo
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
barraco
- first-person singular present indicative of barracar
Further reading
- “barraco” in iDicionário Aulete.
- “barraco” in Dicionário inFormal.
- “barraco” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “barraco” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- “barraco” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
- “barraco” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
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