fiumara

English

Etymology

From Italian fiumara.

Noun

fiumara (plural fiumaras)

  1. A flooded river (or its riverbed), especially one running down from a mountain.
    • 1856, Richard F. Burton, First Footsteps in East Africa, 2000 edition, Könemann, page 123:
      Having skirted the sea for two hours, I rode off with the End of Time to inspect the Dihh Silil, a fiumara which runs from the western hills north-eastwards to the sea.

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Italian

Etymology

From fiume.

Noun

fiumara f (plural fiumare)

  1. torrent
  2. flood (of moving water)

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