quebrado
English
Noun
quebrado (plural quebrados)
- Alternative form of quebrada (“ravine or valley in Latin America”).
Galician
Adjective
quebrado (feminine quebrada, masculine plural quebrados, feminine plural quebradas)
Participle
quebrado (feminine quebrada, masculine plural quebrados, feminine plural quebradas)
- past participle of quebrar
Portuguese
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /keˈbɾa.du/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /keˈbɾa.do/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /kɨˈbɾa.du/ [kɨˈβɾa.ðu]
- Hyphenation: que‧bra‧do
Adjective
quebrado (feminine quebrada, masculine plural quebrados, feminine plural quebradas, comparable, comparative mais quebrado, superlative o mais quebrado or quebradíssimo)
- in separate pieces; fragmented; broken
- (of an object) not working properly; broken
- (of a body part) having the bone in pieces; fractured; broken
- having no money; bankrupt; broken; broke
Participle
quebrado (feminine quebrada, masculine plural quebrados, feminine plural quebradas)
- past participle of quebrar
Further reading
- “quebrado”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
- “quebrado”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
- “quebrado” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “quebrado”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
- “quebrado”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
- “quebrado”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /keˈbɾado/ [keˈβ̞ɾa.ð̞o]
- Rhymes: -ado
- Syllabification: que‧bra‧do
Adjective
quebrado (feminine quebrada, masculine plural quebrados, feminine plural quebradas)
- bankrupt; broke
- broken
- uneven; coarse; rough
- (cockfighting) capable of both attack and defense; spirited; skilled at dodging (cf. quiebro, quebradillo)
Noun
quebrado m (plural quebrados)
- número quebrado: fraction
- verso quebrado: a line of poetry shorter than the surrounding or natural meter of the poem (cf. hemistich)
- hernia
Derived terms
Participle
quebrado (feminine quebrada, masculine plural quebrados, feminine plural quebradas)
- past participle of quebrar
Further reading
- “quebrado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024