cavaquinho

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese cavaquinho, from the diminutive of cavaco (“fragment of wood”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kavaˈkiːnjuː/

Noun

cavaquinho (plural cavaquinhos)

1. A small guitar-string instrument of Portuguese origin, with four wire or gut strings, played with a plectrum.
   • 2022 February 7, Jonathan Blitzer, “How Caetano Veloso Revolutionized Brazil’s Sound and Spirit”, in The New Yorker‎^[1], →ISSN:

     One person came back with a guitar, another with a Brazilian-style ukulele called a cavaquinho, and a third with a tambourine and a tantam drum with a long, thick neck.

Synonyms

• braguinha
• braguinho

Translations

small guitar-string instrument of Brazilian origin, with four wire or gut strings

• Marathi: कावाकीन्यू (kāvākīnyū)
• Portuguese: cavaquinho (pt) m

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of string instruments

References

• 2005. Choro: A Social History of a Brazilian Popular Music. Tamara Elena Livingston, Thomas George. Pg. 5.

Portuguese

cavaquinhos

Etymology

From cavaco (“fragment of wood”) +‎ -inho.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.vaˈkĩ.ɲu/ [ka.vaˈkĩ.j̃u]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.vaˈkĩ.ɲu/ [ka.vaˈkĩ.j̃u]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.vaˈki.ɲo/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐ.vɐˈki.ɲu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐ.vɐˈki.ɲu/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐ.bɐˈki.ɲu/ [kɐ.βɐˈki.ɲu]

• Hyphenation: ca‧va‧qui‧nho

Noun

cavaquinho m (plural cavaquinhos)

1. diminutive of cavaco
2. (music) cavaquinho (small string instrument of the European guitar family)

   Synonyms: (Azores, Madeira) braguinha, cavaco

Related terms

• cavaquinhista
• cavaquista