barraca

Diminutive of barra (“clay, mud”), from Vulgar Latin *barrum, probably ultimately from Celtiberian or a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia.^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [bəˈra.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [baˈra.ka]

barraca f (plural barraques)

1. hut, tent
2. storage shed
3. market stall
4. barrack

• barraquer

• → French: baraque (see there for further descendants)
• → Portuguese: barraca (see there for further descendants)
• → Spanish: barraca

• “barraca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “barraca”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “barraca” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “barraca” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Catalan barraca; see barro.

• Rhymes: -akɐ
• Hyphenation: bar‧ra‧ca

barraca f (plural barracas)

1. tent
2. hut
3. stall (at the fair)
4. sunshade

• → Gujarati: બરાક (barāk)

• “barraca”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Borrowed from Catalan barraca; see barro.

• IPA^(key): /baˈraka/ [baˈra.ka]

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• Rhymes: -aka
• Syllabification: ba‧rra‧ca

barraca f (plural barracas)

1. barrack
2. storage shed
3. tent, hut

   Synonyms: choza, cabaña

• → Italian: barraca
  • → Turkish: baraka

• “barraca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28