fiumara

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noun

A flooded river (or its riverbed), especially one running down from a mountain.

OriginItalian fiumara →
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Meanings

fiumara1

nounfiumara (plural fiumaras)

plural fiumaras

  1. A flooded river (or its riverbed), especially one running down from a mountain.

    Having skirted the sea for two hours, I rode off with the End of Time to inspect the Dihh Silil, a fiumara which runs from the western hills north-eastwards to the sea.

    1856, Richard F. Burton, First Footsteps in East Africa, Könemann, published 2000, page 123

Fiumara2

proper nounFiumara (plural Fiumaras)

plural Fiumaras

  1. A surname from Italian.

Origin

fiumara · noun

  1. Italianfiumara
  2. Englishfiumara

From Italian fiumara.

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Fiumara · proper noun

  1. ItalianFiumara
  2. EnglishFiumara

Borrowed from Italian Fiumara.

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