bachata

English

Etymology

From Caribbean Spanish bachata (“party, good time”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bəˈt͡ʃɑːtə/

Noun

bachata (countable and uncountable, plural bachatas)

1. A genre of music originating in the Dominican Republic.
   • 2007 February 4, Alex Mindlin, “Yearning to Break the Lock on a Long-Shuttered Park”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     “All the time they complain about it,” said Rafael Batista, the owner of Quisqueya Records, a store whose list of new releases, in keeping with the neighborhood’s large Dominican population, is divided into merengue, salsa, balada and bachata.

2. A style of dance accompanying this music.
   • 2007 August 3, The New York Times, “Dance Listings”, in New York Times‎^[2]:

     From 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Brooklyn’s own ReggaeLution band will perform, and at 9, D.J. Lumumba (a k a Revolution) will preside over an inclusive Caribbean dance party, from bachata to zouk and back again.

Translations

genre of music

• Esperanto: baĉato
• Georgian: ბაჩატა (bačaṭa)
• Spanish: bachata (es) f

Spanish

Etymology

Shortening of cumbanchata, augmentative of cumbancha (“fiesta, merrymaking”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈt͡ʃata/ [baˈt͡ʃa.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ata
• Syllabification: ba‧cha‧ta

Noun

bachata f (plural bachatas)

1. bachata
2. (Antilles) party

   Synonyms: carrete, farra, fiesta, guateque, jolgorio, juerga, marcha, parranda

Descendants

• → English: bachata

Further reading

• “bachata”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10