buraco

Meaning

Noun

1. (masculine) pit; hole (hollow spot in a surface)
2. (masculine) burrow (a tunnel or hole dug by a creature)
3. (figuratively,masculine) a very filthy, crude or precarious house
4. (masculine) pocket (cavity with a sack at each corner and one centered on each side of a pool or snooker table)
5. (masculine) hole (an opening in a solid)
6. (figuratively,masculine) gap (a vacant time)
7. (figuratively,masculine) an emotional gap caused by someone’s death or absence
8. (masculine,slang) a difficult situation financially
9. (masculine) canasta, especially its Brazilian variant

Verb

first-person singular present indicative of buracar

Hyphenated as

bu‧ra‧co

Pronounced as (IPA)

/buˈɾa.ku/

Etymology

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, and Spanish buraco; cf. also Catalan forat, Spanish horado.
Or, possibly borrowed from Old High German boron (“to bore, drill”).

Sentences

Um grande buraco no concreto sendo escavado por uma grande máquina de escavação .

A large hole in the concrete being dug by a large excavating machine.

Um cachorro marrom cavando um buraco .

A brown dog digging a hole.