merengue
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From American Spanish merengue, from French meringue. Doublet of meringue.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]merengue (countable and uncountable, plural merengues)
- (music, uncountable) A type of music common in the Caribbean, originally associated with the Dominican Republic.
- 2007 January 7, Alex Mindlin, “For a Shuttered Marina, Some Regret, Some Relief”, in New York Times[1]:
- The marina was a mainstay of the neighborhood, and Mr. O’Rourke was known for staging salsa and merengue concerts.
- A song performed in this style.
- A dance to this style of music.
- 2011, Elizabeth Drake-Boyt, Latin Dance, →ISBN, page 86:
- If Trujillo said everybody had to dance the merengue, then everybody danced the merengue, for so feared was he by Dominicans that it was said that even a glance from him had the power to kill someone from across the street.
Verb
[edit]merengue (third-person singular simple present merengues, present participle merenguing, simple past and past participle merengued)
- (intransitive) To dance to merengue music.
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]merengue
- merengue (music and dance)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of merengue (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | merengue | — | |
genitive | merenguen | — | |
partitive | merenguea | — | |
illative | merengueen | — | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | merengue | — | |
accusative | nom. | merengue | — |
gen. | merenguen | ||
genitive | merenguen | — | |
partitive | merenguea | — | |
inessive | merenguessa | — | |
elative | merenguesta | — | |
illative | merengueen | — | |
adessive | merenguella | — | |
ablative | merenguelta | — | |
allative | merenguelle | — | |
essive | merenguena | — | |
translative | merengueksi | — | |
abessive | merenguetta | — | |
instructive | — | — | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish merengue, itself borrowed from French meringue.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]merengue m (plural merengues)
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Spanish merengue, from French meringue.
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: me‧ren‧gue
Noun
[edit]merengue m (plural merengues)
Further reading
[edit]- “merengue”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from French meringue.
Noun
[edit]merengue m (plural merengues)
- merengue (a type of music common in the Caribbean)
- meringue
- Synonym: espumilla
- wuss; wimp
- Synonym: baldragas
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Noun
[edit]merengue m or f by sense (plural merengues)
- (soccer) a person connected with Real Madrid, as a player, fan, coach, etc.
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]merengue
- inflection of merengar:
Further reading
[edit]- “merengue”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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