cachaça
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See also: cachaca
English
Etymology
From Portuguese cachaça.
Pronunciation
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.
- 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.
Translations
rum
Old Galician-Portuguese
Noun
cachaça f (plural cachaças)
Descendants
- Galician: cachaza, cachaça (reintegrationist)
- → Spanish: cachaza
Further reading
Portuguese
Etymology
Uncertain, possibly from cachaço (“boar”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -asɐ
- Hyphenation: ca‧cha‧ça
Noun
cachaça f (plural cachaças)
- cachaça (a type of Brazilian rum)
- Synonyms: aguardente, aguardente de cana, cana, (Rio Grande do Sul) canha, pinga
- (Brazil, informal) any alcoholic beverage, especially a distilled spirit; booze; grog
Related terms
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /kaˈt͡ʃaθa/
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /kaˈt͡ʃasa/
- Rhymes: -aθa
- Rhymes: -asa
Noun
cachaça m (plural cachaças)