chubasco

Borrowed from Spanish chubasco (“downpour”), from Portuguese chuva (“rain”), from Latin pluvia (“rain”).

• IPA^(key): /tʃuːˈbɑːskəʊ/

chubasco (plural chubascos)

1. (nautical) A violent squall with thunder and lightning, encountered during the rainy season along the Pacific coast of Central America and South America.

Borrowed from Portuguese chuvasco (“rain”), or from Galician chuvasco (“rain”).

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃuˈbasko/ [t͡ʃuˈβ̞as.ko]
• Rhymes: -asko
• Syllabification: chu‧bas‧co

chubasco m (plural chubascos)

1. downpour, squall

   Synonyms: aguacero, chaparrón

• Chubasco in standard Spanish means any rain shower associated with heavy wind or, in nautical usage, a dark cloud which suddenly appears in the horizon, potentially foretelling rough sailing conditions (Diccionario de la Lengua Española, Real Academia Española).

• “chubasco”, 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