breca

Unknown. Perhaps from Arabic قِلَّة البَارَك (qilla(t) al-bārak, “bad luck”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɾɛkɐ]

breca f (plural brecas)

1. cramp (painful contraction of a muscle)

   Synonym: cambra

Unknown. Perhaps from a substrate language.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɾɛkɐ]

breca f (plural brecas)

1. pandora (Pagellus erythrinus)

• “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.

• Rhymes: -ɛkɐ
• Hyphenation: bre‧ca

Unknown. Possibly from Arabic قِلَّة البَارَك (qilla(t) al-bārak, “bad luck”).

breca f (plural brecas)

1. cramp (painful contraction of a muscle)

   Synonym: cãibra

2. (obsolete) a disease that makes the hair of goats fall off

• com a breca
• da breca
• levar a breca

breca f (plural brecas)

1. (rare) grey mullet (Mugil cephalus, a tropical and subtropical fish)

   Synonyms: tainha, mugem

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

breca

1. inflection of brecar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

breca f (plural brecas)

1. common pandora

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