parranda
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Spanish parranda.
Noun[edit]
parranda (uncountable)
- A Venezuelan genre of music with African influences and drumming.
- 2008 March 16, Jon Pareles, “Sounds Soft and Tough, and a Star in the Trunk”, in New York Times[1]:
- The nonpurist result is world-music fusion, linking the Central American parranda and punta to African and Latin pop, flamenco, even electric blues.
Galician[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Probably a derivation of the synonym farra.[1] Attested at least since 1858.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
parranda f (plural parrandas)
References[edit]
- “parranda” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “parranda” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “parranda” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “farra”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Probably derived from Basque farra, parra (“laugh, laughter”), whence also Spanish farra and (Brazilian) Portuguese farra.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
parranda f (plural parrandas)
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Coromines, Joan (2011) Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana [Brief etymological dictionary of the Spanish language] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN
Further reading[edit]
- “parranda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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