baraque

Borrowed from Valencian barraca, probably from Paleo-Hispanic.

• IPA^(key): /ba.ʁak/

• Audio:

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baraque f (plural baraques)

1. shack, hut
2. stall, stand
3. (colloquial) pad, crib (house)
4. (informal) musclehead, muscleman, man built like a brick shithouse, bulky man (large and muscular man)

   Synonym: armoire à glace

• baraque à frites
• baraqué
• casser la baraque

• → Dutch: barak
  • → Caribbean Javanese: barag, mbarag
  • → Indonesian: barak
  • → Papiamentu: barak
• → English: barrack
• → German: Baracke
  • → Serbo-Croatian: baraka
• → Norwegian: barakke
  • → Icelandic: braggi

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