descarga

From Spanish descarga.

descarga (plural descargas)

1. (music) A jam session in the tradition of Cuban music
   • 2007 January 12, “Rock/Pop Listings”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Jimmy Bosch is a trombonist who savors the Latin jazz tradition of the descarga, a jam session everyone can dance to.

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese descárrega, deverbal from descarregar.

• Hyphenation: des‧car‧ga

descarga f (plural descargas)

1. act of unloading

   Synonym: descarregamento

2. (electricity, electronics) discharge

   Synonyms: descargo, desencargo

3. (law) release from obligation or encumbrance

   Synonym: quitação

4. (military) volley
5. canceling of an item or registration

   Synonym: baixo

6. (Brazil) flush (automatic cleansing of a toilet)

   Synonym: (Portugal) autoclismo

7. (medicine) evacuation, purging

• IPA^(key): /desˈkaɾɡa/ [d̪esˈkaɾ.ɣ̞a]
• Rhymes: -aɾɡa
• Syllabification: des‧car‧ga

Deverbal from descargar.

descarga f (plural descargas)

1. unloading
2. discharge
3. electrical shock
4. download
5. flush (toilet)
6. jam session
7. volley, fusillade

• cargar

descarga

1. inflection of descargar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “descarga”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024