Bairro

A bairro (lit. quarter, Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈbajʁu]) is a community or region within a city or municipality of Brazil. Regions referred to as bairros exist in most major Brazilian cities. Related English words include neighborhood, district, borough or subdivision. Bairro, a Portuguese word, is cognate with Germanic berg, burg, borg, burgh, borough, etc.; and Spanish barrio, all of which descend from the same Proto-Indo European root.