quebrada

Borrowed from Spanish quebrada.

• IPA^(key): /keˈbɹɑːdə/

quebrada (plural quebradas)

1. A ravine or valley in Latin America.
   • 2003, Joan Koss-Chioino, Thomas L. Leatherman, Christine Greenway, Medical Pluralism in the Andes, page 209:

     Later, friends told me of the dangers of absorbing fright illness and mal aire from the quebrada, especially from eggs and other curing paraphernalia discarded there.

• quebrado

quebrada f sg

1. feminine singular of quebrado

quebrada f sg

1. feminine singular of quebrado

• Hyphenation: que‧bra‧da

quebrada f sg

1. feminine singular of quebrado

quebrada f (plural quebradas)

1. (Brazil, slang, often used in plural) neighborhood

   Synonym: banda

2. (Brazil, slang) a place in a town or city where drugs are routinely consumed, often without knowledge of authorities

quebrada f sg

1. feminine singular of quebrado

• “quebrada” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “quebrada” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “quebrada” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “quebrada” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “quebrada” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “quebrada” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

• IPA^(key): /keˈbɾada/ [keˈβ̞ɾa.ð̞a]
• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: que‧bra‧da

quebrada f (plural quebradas)

1. gorge, ravine

   Synonyms: cañada, cañón, barranco, quiebra

quebrada f sg

1. feminine singular of quebrado

quebrada f sg

1. feminine singular of quebrado

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