maracatu

See also: maracatú

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese maracatu, from Old Tupi maraká (“rattle, maraca”) +‎ katu (“good”).

Pronunciation

Noun

maracatu (uncountable)

  1. A Brazilian performance genre from Pernambuco involving parades and music.
    • 2008 January 15, Jon Pareles, “To See (and Hear) the World in Five Hours: Unique Sounds Ripe for Import”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      Nation Beat, from exotic Brooklyn, uses the maracatu beat and rabeca fiddle of northeastern Brazil, and it has a Brazilian singer, Liliana Araújo.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Tupi maraká (“rattle, maraca”) +‎ katu (“good”).

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ma.ɾa.kaˈtu/

  • Rhymes: -u
  • Hyphenation: ma‧ra‧ca‧tu

Noun

maracatu m (uncountable)

  1. maracatu

Further reading

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.