kantika
Ladino
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Spanish cantiga (“song”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]kantika f (Hebrew spelling קאנטיקה)
- (music) song (musical composition with lyrics for voice or voices, performed by singing)
- Synonym: kantar
- El kanta la kantika para la nona.
- He sings the song to the grandmother.
- 1994, Isak Papo, Cuentos Sobre los Sefardies de Sarajevo, Logos, →ISBN, page 68:
- La primera kantika era "Aj ke relumbron di novja ermoza", il padri dil novju li dizija a la novja, jamandula "ki salga a baljar, ki la keru ver".
- The first song was ‘There a sudden flash of light from [a] beautiful bride’; the groom’s father told the bride announcing to her ‘that I want to see her go out to dance.’
- 2012 October 1, Miriam Moscona, Tela de sevoya, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial México, →ISBN, page 39:
- Me esto akodrando algo ke ambezí de oyido, komo una kantika de kuna ke ainda kantas en la viejes.
- I am remembering something that I learnt by hearing, like a lullaby that you keep singing to the elderly.