cabaret

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French cabaret.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /kæbəˈɹeɪ/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: ca‧ba‧ret

Noun[edit]

cabaret (countable and uncountable, plural cabarets)

  1. Live entertainment held in a restaurant or nightclub; the genre of music associated with this form of entertainment, especially in early 20th century Europe.
  2. The nightclub or restaurant where such entertainment is held.
  3. (Philippines) A strip club.

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Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French cabaret.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /kaː.baːˈrɛt/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: ca‧ba‧ret

Noun[edit]

cabaret n (plural cabarets)

  1. cabaret, type of live entertainment
  2. comedy, live performance of jokes and satire

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French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Middle French cabaret, from Middle Dutch cambret, from Old Northern French camberete and Old Picard camberet (little room), diminutive of cambre (chamber) (modern chambre), all from Latin camera.

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Noun[edit]

cabaret m (plural cabarets)

  1. pub, tavern
  2. cabaret (restaurant or nightclub with live entertainment)
  3. (Quebec, Louisiana) tray (object on which things are carried)
    Synonym: plateau
  4. (obsolete) asarabacca
    • 1869, Eugene Soubeiran, Traite de Pharmacie Theorique et Pratique, page 602:
      La racine du Cabaret [...] est vomitive, et, d’après le témoignage de Cullen, de Coste et Willemet, et de Loiseleur-Deslongchamps, elle peut remplacer l’ipecacuanha comme vomitif, à la dose de 1 à 2 grammes.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 1896, Adolphe Marie Gubler, Commentaires Therapeutiques du Codex Medicamentarius, page 29:
      Le Cabaret est une plante indigène dont la racine, très active, renferme une huile volatile concrète , une huile grasse très âcre, un substance jaune nauséeuse, contenant peut-être son principe actif, et diverses autres substances peu importantes
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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Descendants[edit]

  • Dutch: cabaret
  • English: cabaret
  • German: Kabarett (see there for further descendants)
  • Italian: cabaret
  • Portuguese: cabaré
  • Spanish: cabaré

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Italian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

  • cabarè (only in the regional meaning of “tray”)

Etymology[edit]

Unadapted borrowing from French cabaret. Compare Sicilian tabbarè.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ka.baˈrɛ/**, /ka.baˈre/**[1]
  • Rhymes: , -e
  • Hyphenation: ca‧ba‧ret

Noun[edit]

cabaret m (invariable)

  1. cabaret (nightclub)
  2. (uncountable) cabaret (live entertainment)
  3. (regional) tray, platter
    Synonym: vassoio

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References[edit]

  1. ^ cabaret in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Further reading[edit]

  • cabaret in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Portuguese[edit]

Noun[edit]

cabaret m (plural cabarets)

  1. Alternative spelling of cabaré

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French cabaret.

Noun[edit]

cabaret n (plural cabarete)

  1. cabaret

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Spanish[edit]

Noun[edit]

cabaret m (plural cabarets)

  1. Alternative form of cabaré

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