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buraco.

pit; hole (hollow spot in a surface)

6 characters3 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

noun/buˈɾa.ku/Brazil/buˈɾa.ku/Portugal
  1. pit; hole (hollow spot in a surface)

    masculine
  2. burrow (a tunnel or hole dug by a creature)

    masculine
  3. a very filthy, crude or precarious house

    figuratively · masculine
  4. pocket (cavity with a sack at each corner and one centered on each side of a pool or snooker table)

    masculine
  5. hole (an opening in a solid)

    masculine
  6. gap (a vacant time)

    figuratively · masculine
  7. an emotional gap caused by someone’s death or absence

    figuratively · masculine
  8. a difficult situation financially

    masculine · slang
  9. canasta, especially its Brazilian variant

    masculine
Where this word comes from

Uncertain. Possibly from Old Galician-Portuguese furaco, through Vulgar Latin *foraculum from Latin forāmen (“aperture, opening”). Compare Galician buraco, furaco, furado, Asturian furacu, buracu, Ladino burako, Leonese buraco, Spanish buraco; compare also, just for the card games, Italian burraco and Sicilian vurracu. Cf. also Catalan forat, Spanish horado. Or, possibly borrowed from Old High German boron (“to bore, drill”).

verb/buˈɾa.ku/Brazil/buˈɾa.ku/Portugal
  1. first-person singular present indicative of buracar

    first-person · form-of · indicative · present · singular
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