# quebrada
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish quebrada.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /keˈbɹɑːdə/

### Noun

quebrada (plural quebradas)
* A ravine or valley in Latin America.
** 2003, Joan Koss-Chioino, Thomas L. Leatherman, Christine Greenway, Medical Pluralism in the Andes, page 209:Later, friends told me of the dangers of absorbing fright illness and mal aire from the quebrada, especially from eggs and other curing paraphernalia discarded there.

#### Alternative forms

* quebrado

## Galician
### Adjective

quebrada f sg
* feminine singular of quebrado

### Participle

quebrada f sg
* feminine singular of quebrado

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /keˈbɾa.dɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /keˈbɾa.dɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /keˈbɾa.da/
* (Portugal) IPA: /kɨˈbɾa.dɐ/ [kɨˈβɾa.ðɐ]
* Rhymes: -adɐ
* Hyphenation: que‧bra‧da

### Adjective

quebrada f sg
* feminine singular of quebrado

### Noun

quebrada f (plural quebradas)
* (Brazil, slang, often in the plural) neighborhood
    Synonym: banda
** 2003 October, MS Barney, Rafael Mordente (lyrics and music), “Bonde da Orgia de Travecos” (0:11 from the start), in Seringas Compartilhadas Vol. 2 (Concertos para Fagote Solo, em Sí Bemol), performed by U.D.R., Belo Horizonte:Eu tava com meus mano lá na minha quebrada / Chegou o Wanderley e veio dar ideia erradaI was with my bros at my neighborhood, then Wanderley came with wrong ideas.
** c. 2011, Bruno Lima (lyrics and music), “Música da Goiaba” (0:01 from the start)‎Porto Seguro: Família Goiaba, published 2021 April 6:Lá nas quebrada onde eu moro, mano / Tem um ponto de ônibus e um vendedor de goiaba, né?At the neighboohood I live, man, there's a bus stop and a guava salesman, y'know?
** 2013 June 1, Marcello Gugu (lyrics and music), “Ipiranga” (2:48 from the start), in Até Que Enfim, Gugu!, São Paulo:Eu amo minha quebrada, mas o mundo moderno / Faz minha vila ser mais quente que a cozinha do infernoI love my neighboohood, but the modern world makes my town hotter than hell's kitchen
* (Brazil, slang) a place in a town or city where drugs are routinely consumed, often without knowledge of authorities (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
* quebrada (ravine or valley in Latin America)

### Participle

quebrada f sg
* feminine singular of quebrado

### References

* “quebrada”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
* “quebrada”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
* “quebrada” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
* “quebrada”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* “quebrada”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
* “quebrada”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /keˈbɾada/ [keˈβ̞ɾa.ð̞a]
* Rhymes: -ada
* Syllabification: que‧bra‧da

### Noun

quebrada f (plural quebradas)
* gorge, ravine
    Synonyms: cañada, cañón, barranco, quiebra

### Adjective

quebrada f sg
* feminine singular of quebrado

### Participle

quebrada f sg
* feminine singular of quebrado

#### Derived terms

* pegarse la quebrada

### Further reading

* “quebrada”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10