borracha

Borrowed from Spanish borracha (“wineskin”); because native Amazonians used rubber to make waterskins, the meaning began to apply to the substance.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bu.ˈʁa.ʃɐ/
• (Brazil)
  • (Paulista) IPA^(key): /bo.ˈʁa.ʃa/
  • (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /bo.ˈha.ʃa/
  • (Gaúcho) IPA^(key): /bo.ˈʀa.ʃa/
  • (Carioca) IPA^(key): /bo.ˈʁa.ʃɐ/
  • (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /bu.ˈɦa.ʃɐ/
• Hyphenation: bor‧ra‧cha

borracha f (plural borrachas)

1. (uncountable) rubber (pliable material derived from the sap of the rubber tree)

   Synonym: látex

2. eraser (thing used to remove something written or drawn by a pen or a pencil)
3. wineskin (bag for holding wine)

   Synonym: odre

• seringueira

• → Hunsrik: Borasch

borracha

1. Feminine singular of adjective borracho.

• abrochar, brochara, brochará

From Catalan morratxa (“flask”), influenced by morro (“snout”), from older marraixa (“carafe”).

• IPA^(key): /boˈrat͡ʃa/
• Hyphenation: bor‧ra‧cha

borracha

1. Feminine singular of adjective borracho.

borracha f (plural borrachas)

1. wineskin

   Synonym: bota

• → Italian: borraccia
• → Portuguese: borracha
  • → Hunsrik: Borasch

borracha f (plural borrachas)

1. female equivalent of borracho

• borracho