reggae

reggae

See also: Reggae

English

Etymology

From Jamaican Creole rege (“rags; a quarrel”), see rag; originally used in the 1960s to describe a Jamaican dance. Broader musical sense popularized by the 1968 song "Do the Reggay".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛɡeɪ/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɛɡeɪ

Noun

reggae (uncountable)

1. (Rastafari, music) A music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s and is heavily associated with Rastafarianism, featuring a heavy bass line and percussive rhythm guitar on the offbeat, often with close vocal harmonies.
   • 1978, Wolfgang Büld, director, Reggae In a Babylon, spoken by Dennis Bovell (as himself, a member of the band Matumbi), 05:35 from the start:

     I mean, the very name reggae. I mean, it wasn’t called reggae in the first place. It came from blue beat, just ska, you know? Ska and blue beat, the era, and then reggae. Because it was a dance, originally. And the DJs thought, “That’s a nice name,” and the kept saying “reggae music, reggae music” on the air all the time. “Reggae music, reggae music, the DJs on the radio. So everyone kept on saying “Reggae music”. They classed it as …(other Matumbi band members join in) Reggae.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• seggae
• reggae fusion
• reggae rock
• reggaeish
• reggaeton
• rockers reggae
• roots reggae

Translations

music genre

Antillean Creole: wégé m, régé m Arabic: ريغي‎ (rīġī) Hijazi Arabic: ريقي‎ m (rēgē) Armenian: ռեգգի (ṙeggi) Bulgarian: реге n (rege) Chinese: Mandarin: 雷吉樂／雷吉乐 (léijíyuè), 雷鬼樂／雷鬼乐 (léiguǐyuè), 雷蓋樂／雷盖乐 (léigàiyuè), 瑞格樂／瑞格乐 (ruìgéyuè) Corsican: reggae m Esperanto: regeo Finnish: reggae (fi) French: reggae (fr) m Georgian: რეგი (regi) German: Reggae (de) m Greek: ρέγκε (el) (régke) Haitian Creole: rege m Icelandic: reggí n Italian: reggae (it) m Jamaican Creole: rege Japanese: レゲエ (regē) Kazakh: регги (reggi) Korean: 레게 (ko) (rege) Malayalam: റെഗ്ഗെ (ṟegge) Polish: reggae (pl) n Portuguese: reggae (pt) m Russian: ре́гги (ru) m (rɛ́ggi), рэ́гги m (rɛ́ggi) Serbo-Croatian: реге m (rege) Spanish: reggae (es) m Turkish: reggae Yoruba: régè

Anagrams

• raggee

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Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from English reggae.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈreɡeː/, [ˈre̞ɡe̞ː]

Noun

reggae

1. reggae

Declension

Inflection of reggae (Kotus type 21/rosé, no gradation)
nominative		reggae	reggaet
genitive		reggaen	reggaeiden reggaeitten
partitive		reggaetä	reggaeitä
illative		reggaehen reggaehin	reggaeihin
		singular	plural
nominative		reggae	reggaet
accusative	nom.	reggae	reggaet
	gen.	reggaen
genitive		reggaen	reggaeiden reggaeitten
partitive		reggaetä	reggaeitä
inessive		reggaessä	reggaeissä
elative		reggaestä	reggaeistä
illative		reggaehen reggaehin	reggaeihin
adessive		reggaellä	reggaeillä
ablative		reggaeltä	reggaeiltä
allative		reggaelle	reggaeille
essive		reggaenä	reggaeinä
translative		reggaeksi	reggaeiksi
instructive		—	reggaein
abessive		reggaettä	reggaeittä
comitative		—	reggaeineen

Possessive forms of reggae (type rosé)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	reggaeni	reggaemme
2nd person	reggaesi	reggaenne
3rd person	reggaensä

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French

Etymology

From Jamaican Creole rege (“rags; a quarrel”), see rag.

Noun

reggae m (plural reggaes)

1. (music) reggae

Further reading

• “reggae”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English reggae, from Jamaican Creole rege.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛ.ɡɛ/
• Rhymes: -ɛɡɛ
• Syllabification: re‧ggae

Noun

reggae n (indeclinable)

1. reggae

Derived terms

adjectives

• reggae'owy
• reggaeowy

 

Further reading

• reggae in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• reggae in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English reggae.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɛ.ɡi/ [ˈhɛ.ɡi]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɛ.ɡi/ [ˈhɛ.ɡi]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɛ.ɡi/ [ˈχɛ.ɡi]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɛ.ɡe/ [ˈhɛ.ɡe]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɛ.ɡɐj/ [ˈʁɛ.ɣɐj]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɛ.ɡɐj/ [ˈʁɛ.ɣɐj]
  • (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɛ.ɡej/ [ˈʁɛ.ɣej]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɛ.ɡe/ [ˈʁɛ.ɣe]

• Homophone: regue (Brazil)

Noun

reggae m (uncountable)

1. (music) reggae (a music genre from Jamaica)

Derived terms

• regueiro

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Romanian

Etymology

From Unadapted borrowing from French reggae, from Jamaican Creole rege (“rags; a quarrel”).

Noun

reggae n (uncountable)

1. reggae

Declension

declension of reggae (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) reggae	reggaeul
genitive/dative	(unui) reggae	reggaeului
vocative	reggaeule

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Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English reggae.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈreɡe/ [ˈre.ɣ̞e]
• Rhymes: -eɡe

Noun

reggae m (plural reggaes)

1. reggae

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

• “reggae”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014