baraque

See also: baraqué

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Valencian barraca, probably from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ba.ʁak/
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Noun

baraque f (plural baraques)

shack, hut
stall, stand
(colloquial) pad, crib (house)
(informal) musclehead, muscleman, man built like a brick shithouse, bulky man (large and muscular man)
Synonym: armoire à glace

Derived terms

Descendants

→ English: barrack
→ German: Baracke
- → Serbo-Croatian: baraka

Further reading

“baraque”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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