cachaça

See also: cachaca

English

Etymology

From Portuguese cachaça.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈʃɑː.sə/

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• Hyphenation: ca‧cha‧ça
• Rhymes: -ɑːsə

Noun

cachaça (countable and uncountable, plural cachaças)

1. A type of Brazilian white rum made of sugar cane juice, used as one of the ingredients of a caipirinha. [from 19th c.]
   • 1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 222:

     A line of ants heads across the table, detouring around the bottle of cachaça that is now empty.

   • 2003, Peter Robb, A Death in Brazil, Bloomsbury, published 2005, page 34:

     Neat cachaça put fire in your belly and stilled the pangs of hunger.

Translations

rum

• Japanese: カシャッサ (kashassa)
• Old Tupi: kaûĩtatá
• Portuguese: cachaça (pt) f, pinga (pt) f (slang)
• Spanish: cachaza (es) f

Old Galician-Portuguese

Noun

cachaça f (plural cachaças)

1. (cooking) salted pork head

Descendants

• Galician: cachaza
  • → Spanish: cachaza

Further reading

• Universo Cantigas - "cachaça"

Portuguese

Etymology

Uncertain, possibly from cachaço (“boar”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈʃa.sɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈʃa.sɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈʃa.sa/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐˈʃa.sɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐˈʃa.sɐ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐˈt͡ʃa.sɐ/

• Rhymes: -asɐ
• Hyphenation: ca‧cha‧ça

Noun

cachaça f (plural cachaças)

1. cachaça (a type of Brazilian rum)

   Synonyms: aguardente, aguardente de cana, cana, (Rio Grande do Sul) canha, pinga

2. (Brazil, informal) any alcoholic beverage, especially a distilled spirit; booze; grog

Related terms

• cachaçada
• cachaçaria
• cachaceiro
• encachaçado
• encachaçar

 

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /kaˈt͡ʃaθa/ [kaˈt͡ʃa.θa]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /kaˈt͡ʃasa/ [kaˈt͡ʃa.sa]
• (Spain) Rhymes: -aθa
• (Latin America) Rhymes: -asa

Noun

cachaça m (plural cachaças)

1. cachaça