paranda

paranda (plural parandas)

1. A decoration for a braid tassel.
   • 1997, Oppi Untracht, Traditional jewelry of India, page 370:

     This woman's hair-braid ornament variously called paranda, phundri, chotiu, or balchoti is used all over India.

Spanish parranda (“merry-making or a group of serenaders”).

paranda (uncountable)

1. A style of acoustic Garifuna music that is influenced by Spanish music, and which consists primarily of ballads.
   • 2005, John Shepherd, David Horn, Dave Laing, Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Part 2:

     Punta rock songs are usually composed by men and are most often based on the rhythm and/or text of existing punta and paranda songs. Paranda songs are Spanish-influenced songs composed and performed by men, with a duple-meter rhythm very similar to that of punta.

   • 2008, The Beat - Volume 27, Issues 1-4, page 34:

     Despite the efforts of Andy Pand many others in the struggle for cultural sensitivity in Central America, and although paranda musician Aurelio Martinez, 31, was elected in 2005 along with two other Garifuna representatives to the National Congress of Honduras, making history as the first Garifuna congressmen in 75 years, a little anecdote shows how much more public education...

   • 2016, Alex Egerton, Paul Harding, Lonely Planet Belize, →ISBN:

     Unlike punta rock, paranda music is totally unplugged, played on wooden Garifuna drums, acoustic guitars and primitive percussion instruments, such as shakers and turtle shells.

• parang

paranda

1. present indicative connegative of parandama
2. second-person singular imperative of parandama

paranda

1. inflection of parandus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

parandā

1. ablative feminine singular of parandus