sarabande

sarabande

English

Alternative forms

• saraband, sarabrand, zarabanda

Etymology

Borrowed from French sarabande, from Spanish zarabanda.

Noun

sarabande (plural sarabandes)

1. (dance) A 16th-century Spanish dance.
2. (dance) A stately Baroque dance in slow triple time.
3. (music) The music for either dance of the same name.

Translations

a 16th century Spanish dance

Catalan: sarabanda (ca) f French: sarabande (fr) f German: Sarabande (de) Russian: сарабанда (ru) (sarabanda) Spanish: zarabanda (es) f

Further reading

• sarabande on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “sarabande”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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French

Etymology

Spanish zarabanda

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.ʁa.bɑ̃d/

Noun

sarabande f (plural sarabandes)

1. sarabande

Descendants

• → English: sarabande

Further reading

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

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Italian

Noun

sarabande f

1. plural of sarabanda