A
bairro (lit.
quarter, ) 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.