fiumara
fiumara noun: a flooded river (or its riverbed), especially one running down from a mountain.
Noun
fiumara (plural fiumaras)
- 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
Proper noun capitalized: Fiumara
Fiumara (plural Fiumaras)
- A surname from Italian.
Forms of fiumara
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | fiumaras |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Fiumaras |
Origin of fiumara
From Italian fiumara.
Borrowed from Italian Fiumara.
Questions about fiumara
- What does fiumara mean?
- Fiumara means a flooded river (or its riverbed), especially one running down from a mountain.
- What part of speech is fiumara?
- Fiumara can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of fiumara?
- The plural of fiumara is fiumaras.
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