aubade

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French aubade, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French albade, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin albus (“white”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oʊˈbɑːd/

Noun

aubade (plural aubades)

1. A song or poem greeting or evoking the dawn.
   • 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 154:

     Alladad Khan woke to the far crying of kampong cocks in the dark. That noise had been the farmyard aubade in the Punjab in his dream.

2. A morning love song; a song of lovers parting in the morning.

Translations

song or poem greeting dawn

• Dutch: aubade (nl) f
• French: aubade (fr) f
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• Spanish: alborada (es)

morning love song

• French: aubade (fr) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Spanish: alborada (es)

See also

• serenade
• nocturne

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French aubade, from Middle French aubade, from Old Occitan aubada.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌoːˈbaː.də/
• Hyphenation: au‧ba‧de
• Rhymes: -aːdə

Noun

aubade f (plural aubades)

1. A song or musical performance to honour someone, performed in the morning.
2. (uncommon, chiefly historical) An aubade, a morning love song.

Related terms

• albino
• album
• albumen

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o.bad/

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Noun

aubade f (plural aubades)

1. aubade (song; poem)
2. aubade (love song)

Further reading

• “aubade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.