ciranda

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese ciranda, which is from Spanish zaranda (“sieve”), from Andalusian Arabic سرند, from Persian سرند (“sieve”).

Noun

ciranda (plural cirandas)

  1. (music) A traditional Brazilian children's dance.

Anagrams

Portuguese

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
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Ciranda (dance)

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɐ̃dɐ
  • Hyphenation: ci‧ran‧da

Etymology 1

From Spanish zaranda (“sieve”), from Andalusian Arabic سرند, from Persian سرند (“sieve”).

Noun

ciranda f (plural cirandas)

  1. sieve (device to separate larger objects)
    Synonyms: crivo, peneira
  2. (music) a traditional dance from the Northeastern region of Brazil, where people hold hands in order to dance in a circle
  3. (music) a kind of children's dance
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

ciranda

  1. inflection of cirandar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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