barrio

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

1. A municipality or subdivision of a municipality in Spanish America, and in Spain itself.
2. A slum on the periphery of a major city, or a low to middle-class neighborhood in a lesser city, in Venezuela or the Dominican Republic.
3. (Philippines) A rural barangay or neighborhood.
4. (US, informal) An area or neighborhood in a US city inhabited predominantly by Spanish-speakers or people of Hispanic origin.

Συνώνυμα

borough

city district

district

faubourg

neighborhood

neighbourhood

quarter

suburb

uptown

Μεταφράσεις

quartier latino-américain

bairro hispânico

barrio

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

Borrowed from Spanish barrio, from Arabic بَرِّيّ (barriyy, “wild”).