ciranda
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Portuguese ciranda, which is from Spanish zaranda (“sieve”), from Andalusian Arabic سرند, from Persian سرند (“sieve”).
Noun[edit]
ciranda (plural cirandas)
- (music) A traditional Brazilian children's dance.
Anagrams[edit]
Portuguese[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: ci‧ran‧da
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
ciranda f (plural cirandas)
- sieve (device to separate larger objects)
- (music) a traditional dance from the Northeastern region of Brazil, where people hold hands in order to dance in a circle
- (music) a kind of children's dance
Derived terms[edit]
- cirandinha (diminutive)
Related terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Verb[edit]
ciranda
- inflection of cirandar:
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- English terms borrowed from Portuguese
- English terms derived from Portuguese
- English terms derived from Spanish
- English terms derived from Andalusian Arabic
- English terms derived from Persian
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- en:Music
- en:Dances
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- pt:Music
- Portuguese non-lemma forms
- Portuguese verb forms
- pt:Dances