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See also: descargá
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
descarga (plural descargas)
- (music) A jam session in the tradition of Cuban music
- 2007 January 12, “Rock/Pop Listings”, in New York Times[1]:
- Jimmy Bosch is a trombonist who savors the Latin jazz tradition of the descarga, a jam session everyone can dance to.
Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese descárrega, deverbal from descarregar.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: des‧car‧ga
Noun[edit]
descarga f (plural descargas)
- act of unloading
- Synonym: descarregamento
- (electricity, electronics) discharge
- Synonyms: descargo, desencargo
- (law) release from obligation or encumbrance
- Synonym: quitação
- (military) volley
- canceling of an item or registration
- Synonym: baixo
- (Brazil) flush (automatic cleansing of a toilet)
- Synonym: (Portugal) autoclismo
- (medicine) evacuation, purging
Spanish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
descarga f (plural descargas)
Antonyms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Verb[edit]
descarga
- inflection of descargar:
Further reading[edit]
- “descarga”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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- es:Electricity