bachata
English edit
Etymology edit
From Caribbean Spanish bachata (“party, good time”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bachata (countable and uncountable, plural bachatas)
- 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[1]:
- “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.
- A style of dance accompanying this music.
- 2007 August 3, The New York Times, “Dance Listings”, in New York Times[2]:
- 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.
Translations edit
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Shortening of cumbanchata, augmentative of cumbancha (“fiesta, merrymaking”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bachata f (plural bachatas)
Descendants edit
- → English: bachata
Further reading edit
- “bachata”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014