🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

팜파스

Pronunciation / Transliteration: pampaseu

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Pampa/ˈpæmpə/
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"가우초들이 팜파스 초원을 가로질러 달린다."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A vast, treeless plain in South America, particularly in Argentina and Uruguay.

    "The gauchos rode their horses across the endless expanse of the pampa."
  2. 2

    A temperate grassland biome characteristic of central South America.

    "Ecologists study the unique biodiversity found within the South American pampa region."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Borrowed into English from Spanish pampa, which ultimately derives from the Quechua word pampa, meaning 'plain' or 'field'. Historically recorded in European texts from the colonial era onwards, the term initially referred specifically to the vast, treeless plains of South America, particularly in Argentina and Uruguay, before entering broader ecological and geographical lexicon.

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