flamenco

See also: Flamenco

English

Etymology

From Spanish flamenco, from Middle Dutch vlaminc (“Fleming”) (> Dutch Vlaming).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fləˈmɛŋkəʊ/

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Noun

flamenco (countable and uncountable, plural flamencos)

1. (uncountable) A genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, in Spain.
   • 2010, Mike Marqusee, The Guardian, 5 Feb 2010:

     It's impossible to tell the story of flamenco without talking about Lorca, who found in it a source of inspiration in a lifelong political-cultural-sexual struggle against bourgeois philistinism.

2. (countable) A song or dance performed in such a style.
   • 1977, Tennessee Williams, Vieux Carré, I.3:

     La Niña was so goddam terrific that after a month of singing with the vocal trio, she was singing solo and she was dancing a flamenco better'n a gypsy fireball!

Derived terms

• flamenco guitar

Translations

a genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, Spain

• Arabic: فَلَامِنْكُو‎ m (falāminkū)
• Armenian: ֆլամենկո (flamenko)
• Basque: flamenko
• Breton: flamenco
• Catalan: flamenc (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 佛拉明柯舞曲

• Czech: flamenco (cs) n
• Danish: flamenco c
• Dutch: flamenco (nl) m
• Esperanto: flamenko
• Estonian: flamenko
• Finnish: flamenco (fi)
• French: flamenco (fr) m
• Galician: flamenco (gl) m
• German: Flamenco m

• Greek: φλαμένκο (el) n (flaménko)
• Hungarian: flamenco (hu)
• Indonesian: Flamenco
• Italian: flamenco (it) m
• Japanese: フラメンコ (furamenko)
• Korean: 플라멩코 (peullamengko)
• Latin: flamencum
• Marathi: फ्लामेंको (phlāmeṅko)
• Polish: flamenco (pl) n
• Portuguese: flamenco m
• Romanian: flamenco (ro)
• Russian: фламе́нко (ru) m (flaménko)
• Spanish: flamenco (es) m
• Swedish: flamenco (sv)
• Turkish: flamenko (tr)
• Vietnamese: Flamenco

a song or a dance in such a style

• Arabic: فَلَامِنْكُو‎ m (falāminkū)
• Armenian: ֆլամենկո (flamenko)
• Catalan: flamenc (ca) m
• Hindi: फ़्लामेंको m (flāmeṅko)
• Marathi: फ्लामेंको (phlāmeṅko)

• Polish: flamenco (pl) n
• Russian: фламе́нко (ru) m (flaménko)
• Spanish: flamenco (es) m
• Urdu: فلامینکو‎ m (flāmeṅko)

See also

• fandango

Verb

flamenco (third-person singular simple present flamencos, present participle flamencoing, simple past and past participle flamencoed)

1. (intransitive) To dance flamenco.
   • 2011, Yvonne Harris, A River to Cross, Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House Publishers, →ISBN, page 129:

     Behind them on horseback sat six men, two with guitars, one with a trumpet, and three women also on horses: Nadia, an older woman, and the girl Gus had flamencoed with.

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Asturian

Adjective

flamenco

1. neuter of flamencu

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Finnish

Etymology

From Spanish flamenco, from Middle Dutch vlaminc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈflɑmeŋkːo/, [ˈflɑme̞ŋkːo̞]
• IPA^(key): /ˈflɑmeŋko/, [ˈflɑme̞ŋko̞]

Noun

flamenco

1. flamenco

Declension

Inflection of flamenco (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative		flamenco	flamencot
genitive		flamencon	flamencojen
partitive		flamencoa	flamencoja
illative		flamencoon	flamencoihin
		singular	plural
nominative		flamenco	flamencot
accusative	nom.	flamenco	flamencot
	gen.	flamencon
genitive		flamencon	flamencojen
partitive		flamencoa	flamencoja
inessive		flamencossa	flamencoissa
elative		flamencosta	flamencoista
illative		flamencoon	flamencoihin
adessive		flamencolla	flamencoilla
ablative		flamencolta	flamencoilta
allative		flamencolle	flamencoille
essive		flamencona	flamencoina
translative		flamencoksi	flamencoiksi
instructive		—	flamencoin
abessive		flamencotta	flamencoitta
comitative		—	flamencoineen

Possessive forms of flamenco (type valo)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	flamenconi	flamencomme
2nd person	flamencosi	flamenconne
3rd person	flamenconsa

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French

Noun

flamenco m (plural flamencos)

1. flamenco (music, dance)

Further reading

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

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish flamenco, from Dutch Vlaming.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flaˈmɛŋ.kɔ/
• Rhymes: -ɛŋkɔ
• Syllabification: fla‧men‧co

Noun

flamenco n (indeclinable)

1. flamenco (genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, Spain)
2. flamenco (song or a dance in such a style)

Further reading

• flamenco in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• flamenco in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Spanish flamenco.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Brazil) /flaˈmẽ.ku/, [flaˈmẽ.ku]

• IPA^(key): (Portugal) /flɐˈmẽ.ku/, [flɐˈmẽ.ku]

• Hyphenation: fla‧men‧co

Noun

flamenco m (plural flamencos)

1. flamenco (a genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, in Spain)

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Romanian

Etymology

From Spanish flamenco.

Noun

flamenco n (uncountable)

1. flamenco

Declension

declension of flamenco (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) flamenco	flamencoul
genitive/dative	(unui) flamenco	flamencoului
vocative	flamencoule

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Spanish

Etymology

From Dutch Vlaming.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flaˈmenko/, [flaˈmẽŋ.ko]

Adjective

flamenco (feminine flamenca, masculine plural flamencos, feminine plural flamencas)

1. Flemish
2. (relational) flamenco
3. (colloquial) insolent, cheeky

Noun

flamenco m (plural flamencos, feminine flamenca, feminine plural flamencas)

1. Fleming, a Flemish person

Noun

flamenco m (plural flamencos)

1. flamingo (bird)
2. flamenco (music)
3. flamenco (dance)

Derived terms

Birds

• flamenco del Caribe
• flamenco andino
• flamenco austral
• flamenco chico
• flamenco chileno
• flamenco común
• flamenco de James
• flamenco enano

Dance

• aflamencado
• antiflamenquismo
• flamencología
• flamencólogo
• flamenquilla
• flamenquín
• flamenquismo
• flamenquista

Noun

flamenco m (uncountable)

1. Flemish, the standard variety of Dutch used in Belgium
2. Flemish, a group of Dutch dialects spoken in Belgium

Related terms

• Flandes

See also

• bailaor, bailaora

Further reading

• “flamenco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014