parranda

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Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish parranda.

Noun

parranda (uncountable)

  1. A Venezuelan genre of music with African influences and drumming.
    • 2008 March 16, Jon Pareles, “Sounds Soft and Tough, and a Star in the Trunk”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      The nonpurist result is world-music fusion, linking the Central American parranda and punta to African and Latin pop, flamenco, even electric blues.

Spanish

Etymology

Probably derived from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Basque farra, parra (“laugh, laughter”), whence also Spanish farra and (Brasilian) Portuguese farra.[1]

Noun

parranda f (plural parrandas)

  1. parranda
  2. (loud) party, shindig, jamboree, blast
  3. binge, spree

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References

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana, tercera edición 2011, →ISBN
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