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barrio

neighborhood, district of a citycada una de las zonas en que se divide una ciudad

Comes from Arabic

بَرِّيّ

barrī

“outer, from outside (the city walls)”«exterior, de fuera (de las murallas)»

Arabic today says

حَيّ

ḥayy

Root

ب ر ر

b-r-r

The article

It came in without the article.

The story

Barrī means "from outside", from barr "open country": the barrio was the settlement outside the walls. In Arabic today barrī means "wild" or "land-based".Barrī significa «de fuera», de barr «campo abierto»: el barrio era el caserío extramuros. Hoy en árabe barrī quiere decir «salvaje» o «terrestre».

In a sentence

Me crié en este barrio.

I grew up in this neighborhood.

نَشَأْتُ فِي هَذَا الحَيّ.