Baracca
NOUN [feminine]
Meaning and English translation 🔖
Shack, Hut
🇬🇧 A simple, temporary structure, often made of wood and metal sheets, used as shelter or storage.
🇮🇹 Costruzione semplice e temporanea, spesso fatta di legno e lamiera, usata come riparo o deposito.
| Masculine ♂️ | Feminine ♀️ | |
|---|---|---|
| Singular | - | la - una baracca |
| Plural | - | le - delle baracche |
Example sentences 💬
La baracca del cantiere contiene tutti gli attrezzi dei muratori.
The construction site shack contains all the bricklayers' tools.
Dopo il terremoto, molte famiglie hanno vissuto in baracche per mesi.
After the earthquake, many families lived in shacks for months.
Ma che baracca è questa casa? Piove dal soffitto e le finestre non si chiudono!
What a dump this house is! It’s leaking from the ceiling, and the windows don’t close!
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Idioms with baracca 🇮🇹
Mandare avanti la baracca
→ To keep things going, to keep the show running
Lavoro dodici ore al giorno per mandare avanti la baracca.
I work twelve hours a day to keep things going.
Piantare baracca e burattini
→ To give it all up, to leave everything behind
Dopo l'ennesima discussione con il capo, ha deciso di piantare baracca e burattini e aprire un'attività in proprio.
After yet another argument with the boss, he decided to give it all up and start his own business.
Tirare su la baracca
→ To build something from scratch
Ha tirato su la baracca partendo da zero, senza aiuti.
He built everything from scratch, without any help.
Raddrizzare la baracca
→ To set things back on track, to get things sorted out
Il nuovo direttore è riuscito a raddrizzare la baracca in soli sei mesi.
The new director managed to set things back on track in just six months.
Baraccopoli
→ Shantytown, slum
Le baraccopoli alla periferia di molte grandi città sono un problema sociale che i governi devono affrontare.
The shantytowns on the outskirts of many large cities are a social problem that governments need to address.
Where does the word baracca come from? 🔎
Baracca comes from the Catalan barraca (an ancient word) through Spanish. The word came to Italy during the Spanish rule of some Italian regions between the 1500s and 1700s. It was first used for simple temporary buildings used by fishermen or farmers.
