buraco

• burato, furaco, furado

Uncertain. From Old Galician and Old Portuguese buraco (13th century), perhaps from Latin forāmen (“aperture, opening”) or rather from a local derivative of Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“to pierce”) + a pre-Lattin suffix -akko- / -atto-.[1]

Compare Portuguese buraco, Asturian buracu, furacu. The form furado derives from Latin forātus; compare Catalan forat, Spanish horado, Asturian furáu.

• IPA^(key): /buˈɾako̝/

buraco m (plural buracos)

1. hole
2. pit

• buraco negro

• “buraco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “buraco” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “buraco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “buraco” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “buraco” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Of uncertain origin.

Possibly from Old Portuguese furaco, through Vulgar Latin *foraculum from Latin forāmen (“aperture, opening”). Compare Galician buraco, furaco, furado, Asturian furacu, buracu, Leonese buraco, and Spanish buraco; cf. also Catalan forat, Spanish horado.

It could instead be from or cognate with Hindi सुराख (surākh, “eyelet”), Persian سوراخ‎ (“orifice”), which are ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱouH-r-o-.[1]

Or, possibly borrowed from Old High German boron (“to bore, drill”).[2]

• IPA^(key): /buˈɾa.ku/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /buˈɾa.ko/
• Hyphenation: bu‧ra‧co
• Rhymes: -aku

buraco m (plural buracos)

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

• (pit): See Thesaurus:buraco
• (burrow): toca, túnel
• (filthy, crude, precarious house): esconderijo, toca, ninho de ratos
• (snooker table pocket): caçapa
• (opening in a solid): abertura, fenda, orifício
• (vacant time): janela, lacuna
• (emotional gap): vazio
• (canasta): biriba, canastra

• buracar
• esburacado
• esburacamento
• esburacar
• esburaquento

• furacar
• furado

buraco

1. First-person singular (eu) present indicative of buracar