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

buracar

alternative form of esburacar

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Concepts

hole

🕳️

pit

gap

cavity

tear

eye

👁️

hollow

pothole

opening

orifice

slit

rent

crack

socket

split

through

vent

voidage

have a hole

Gap

aperture

ferme

cleft

crevice

cup

fissure

foramen

mouth

puncture

rift

rip

shaft

slot

snag

Synonyms

fenda

furo

🕳️

fresta

oco

vala

Gap

cavouco

olho

👁️

poço

rasgo

cova

🕳️

fosso

rasgão

escavação

cavidade

fundo

alvéolo

abertura

racha

recesso

Translations

trou

🕳️

agujero

🕳️

Loch

🕳️

forat

🕳️

gat

τρύπα

buco

🕳️

hueco

οπή

hoyo

🕳️

creux

trauc

fosse

kuil

Pronounced as (IPA)

/buˈɾa.ku/

Etymology

Cognate with Galician: buraco

Cognate with Asturian: furacu

Cognate with Ladino: burako

Cognate with Spanish: buraco

Cognate with Catalan: forat

Cognate with Spanish: horado

In summary

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”).

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.