reggae
English edit
Etymology edit
From Jamaican Creole rege (“rags; a quarrel”), see rag; originally used in the 1960s to describe a Jamaican dance. Compare ragtime. Broader musical sense popularized by the 1968 song "Do the Reggay".
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Noun edit
reggae (uncountable)
- (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, 05:35 from the start, in Wolfgang Büld, director, Reggae In a Babylon (film (documentary)), spoken by Dennis Bovell (as himself, a member of the band Matumbi):
- 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.
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Finnish edit
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Noun edit
reggae
Declension edit
Inflection of reggae (Kotus type 21/rosé, no gradation) | ||||
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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 | ||
abessive | reggaettä | reggaeittä | ||
instructive | — | reggaein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Further reading edit
- “reggae”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
French edit
Etymology edit
From Jamaican Creole rege (“rags; a quarrel”), see rag.
Noun edit
reggae m (plural reggaes)
Further reading edit
- “reggae”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Malay edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English reggae.
Noun edit
reggae (plural reggae-reggae, informal 1st possessive reggaeku, 2nd possessive reggaemu, 3rd possessive reggaenya)
- Alternative spelling of rege.
Further reading edit
- “reggae” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English reggae.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
reggae n (indeclinable, related adjective reggae'owy or reggaeowy)
- reggae (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)
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Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English reggae.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
reggae m (uncountable)
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Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from French reggae, from Jamaican Creole rege (“rags; a quarrel”).
Noun edit
reggae n (uncountable)
Declension edit
singular | ||
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n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
nominative/accusative | (un) reggae | reggaeul |
genitive/dative | (unui) reggae | reggaeului |
vocative | reggaeule |
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English reggae.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
reggae m (plural reggaes)
Usage notes edit
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 edit
- “reggae”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish edit
Noun edit
reggae c
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Declension of reggae | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | reggae | reggaen | — | — |
Genitive | reggaes | reggaens | — | — |