rebetiko

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Greek ρεμπέτικο (rempétiko, “rebetiko”).

Noun

rebetiko (countable and uncountable, plural rebetika)

1. (music) A Greek urban folk song, characterised by lyrics about underworld activity, and played generally on stringed instruments including the bouzouki. [from 20th c.]
   • 1994, Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin:

     I need another player to put a Greek melody over the top, perhaps a rebetiko of some sort.

2. (music, in the plural) This style of music; such music as a genre. [from 20th c.]
   • 2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation, Penguin, published 2020, page 172:

     At the time, these earliest songs of the rebetika tradition were a symptom and a particular manifestation of a wider climate of violence, criminality and despair, whether real or imagined, that permeated the Greek capital around the turn of the century.

Translations

type of Greek urban folk music

• Greek: ρεμπέτικο (el) n (rempétiko)
• Polish: rebetiko (pl) n
• Turkish: rebetiko

Further reading

• rebetiko on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Turkish

Alternative forms

• rebetika
• rembetiko

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɾɛbɛtikɔ]
• Hyphenation: re‧be‧ti‧ko

Noun

rebetiko

1. rebetiko

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	rebetiko
Definite accusative	rebetikoyu
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	rebetiko	rebetikolar
Definite accusative	rebetikoyu	rebetikoları
Dative	rebetikoya	rebetikolara
Locative	rebetikoda	rebetikolarda
Ablative	rebetikodan	rebetikolardan
Genitive	rebetikonun	rebetikoların