cachaça
See also: cachaca
English
Etymology
From Portuguese cachaça.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kəˈʃɑː.sə/
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: ca‧cha‧ça
- Rhymes: -ɑːsə
Noun
cachaça (countable and uncountable, plural cachaças)
- 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.
Old Galician-Portuguese
Further reading
Portuguese
Etymology
Uncertain, possibly from cachaço (“boar”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /kaˈʃa.sɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /kaˈʃa.sa/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /kɐˈʃa.sɐ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /kɐˈt͡ʃa.sɐ/
- Rhymes: -asɐ
- Hyphenation: ca‧cha‧ça
Noun
cachaça f (plural cachaças)
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
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