bachata
English
Etymology
From Caribbean Spanish bachata (“party, good time”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bəˈt͡ʃɑːtə/
Noun
bachata (uncountable)
- A genre of music originating in the Dominican Republic.
- 2007 February 4, Alex Mindlin, “Yearning to Break the Lock on a Long-Shuttered Park”, in New York Times:
- “All the time they complain about it,” said Rafael Batista, the owner of Quisqueya Records, a store whose list of new releases, in keeping with the neighborhood’s large Dominican population, is divided into merengue, salsa, balada and bachata.
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- A style of dance accompanying this music.
- 2007 August 3, The New York Times, “Dance Listings”, in New York Times:
- From 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Brooklyn’s own ReggaeLution band will perform, and at 9, D.J. Lumumba (a k a Revolution) will preside over an inclusive Caribbean dance party, from bachata to zouk and back again.
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Translations
genre of music
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Spanish
Etymology
Shortening of cumbanchata, augmentative of cumbancha (“fiesta, merrymaking”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /baˈt͡ʃata/ [baˈt͡ʃa.t̪a]
- Rhymes: -ata
- Syllabification: ba‧cha‧ta
Noun
bachata f (plural bachatas)
- bachata
- (Antilles) party
- Synonyms: carrete, farra, fiesta, guateque, jolgorio, juerga, marcha, parranda
Descendants
- → English: bachata
Further reading
- “bachata”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014